LED medical lighting a new breakthrough: PHILPS push new deal with psoriasis

Psoriasis, also known as psoriasis, is a kind of skin disease can not be cured, when the incidence of scaly red patches, but also lead to the surface of the skin off. It is reported that the lighting industry giant PHILPS (Philips) company is about to launch a new BlueControl device, which is a LED light emitting component, can help mild and moderate psoriasis patients to control the disease, the most important is that it will not produce any side effects.

Research shows that the blue light can be LED to curb the effects on the fresh cow, its root cause lies in the rapid cell division, BlueControl is on the basis of the research. In addition, it can also effectively control the skin inflammation. PHILPS has designed a low profile binding component for BlueControl, which can be used to provide energy to the battery, and the patient can fix it in various parts of the body in order to relieve the disease.

BlueControl systems do not use conventional LED light, mainly because they may not meet the needs of the medical level. In order to develop high-intensity pulsed LED light, PHILPS has worked with academic and clinical partners.

PHILPS and BlueControl hospital in Aachen, Germany (University Hospital of Aachen) teamed up to test the. In two clinical trials, the second lasted for over four months, ending on 2014, June. The PASI index showed a 50% reduction in symptoms. PASI index can be used to measure the severity of plaque from the aspects of thickness, redness and expansion. In addition, clinical trials have found that blue LED light does not produce any side effects.

European Society of Dermatology and venereal diseases will be held in Amsterdam from October 8, 2014 to 12. By then, PHILPS will be the first to showcase its latest research and development of BlueControl. Subsequently, the device will be listed in Holland, Germany and the United kingdom.

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