Talk:Calcipotriol

I just made a complete edit of this page. The old page had very little info about the drug itself, and a great deal of unreferenced claims regarding this drug's supposed tendency to cause hypercalicemia and a host of other problems. While such findings have occurred, they are extremely rare, and only in patients using an unusually large amount of the drug. I referenced my claim that this drug is safe with multiple sources. OsteopathicFreak 05:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

A hormone can be a vitamin....

I removed the following from the article:

(These facts demonstrate why many believe Vitamin D should be reclassified as a hormone, not a vitamin.)

Vitamin D is a prohormone that is converted into a hormone in the kidney. That however has nothing to do with whether it is is a vitamin. Vitamins are defined as such based on whether they are, or are not: "nutrients required in very small amounts for essential metabolic reactions in the body". Vitamin D clearly fits this description. Thus, a molecule can be both a hormone and a vitamin, the terms are not mutually exclusive, and the above statement confuses the definitions of both.--DO11.10 22:47, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Request for clarification: "Worsening" vs "exacerbation" of psoriasis

I am puzzled by two entries in the Adverse effects.

• Common: Worsening of psoriasis
• Uncommon: Exacerbation of psoriasis

Is there some medical distinction between "worsening" and "exacerbation"? In normal English they are synonymous, and medicinenet.com (which is not authoritative, I know, but should be indicative) says "In medicine, exacerbation may refer to an increase in the severity of a disease or its signs and symptoms." So is this an error, or is there a difference between these two entries? --Gronk Oz (talk) 14:06, 28 January 2015 (UTC)