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Adjunctive ingenol mebutate gel for actinic keratosis caused few side effects, increased compliance

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 22:08

Ingenol mebutate gel for the treatment of actinic keratosis is an effective adjunct therapy to cryosurgery, and the absence of attendant serious local reactions can increase compliance, based on data...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

More ways to make the most of lasers in clinical practice

Posted on: 09/04/2014 - 18:50

PHOENIX – What’s the latest in lasers? The most stubborn tattoos – those with blue or green ink – are now the easiest to remove with new laser technology and techniques. Microwave treatment for...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Acne scar improvements maintained after laser treatment

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 21:25

PHOENIX – Improvements in acne scarring were maintained 3 months after six laser treatments with a diffractive lens array and a picosecond 755-nm alexandrite laser. Changes seen on histology suggest...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Laser innovations target tattoos, acne, body fat

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 21:15

PHOENIX – Advances in laser technology allow dermatologists to remove tattoos in half the time but at twice the cost. Cold therapy for sebaceous glands theoretically could cure acne. Nonsurgical body...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Investigational acne treatment targets the sebaceous gland

Posted on: 02/04/2014 - 21:31

DENVER – In the not-so-distant future, a treatment option for patients with moderate to severe acne may involve destruction of the sebaceous gland, according to Dr. R. Rox Anderson, director of the...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

What’s old is new again for actinic keratoses treatment

Posted on: 31/03/2014 - 23:00

DENVER – Changes in health insurance coverage are prompting a resurgence in the use of 5-fluorouracil to treat actinic keratoses, according to Dr. Linda Susan Marcus. Not only is 5-fluorouracil...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Ustekinumab again linked to cardiovascular events

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 17:05

WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – The anti-interleukin-12/23 biologic agents ustekinumab and briakinumab were associated with a statistically significant 4.23-fold increased risk of major adverse cardiac events in...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Battlefield lessons improve treatment of traumatic scars

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 20:50

DENVER – Military dermatologists have played an active role in helping wounded warriors with their scars, and those physicians’ practices, including the use of ablative fractional resurfacing, are...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Psoriatic pruritus improves with TrkA-blocking drug

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 20:05

An investigational topical drug that targets a nerve sensitization pathway showed good efficacy against chronic itch in patients with pruritic psoriasis. CT327 works by inhibiting the kinase pathway...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Tofacitinib found noninferior to etanercept for treating psoriasis

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 17:10

DENVER – Key results from a phase III trial found that an investigational Janus kinase inhibitor was noninferior to a biologic agent for treating psoriasis. During a late-breaking session at the...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

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