VANCOUVER – Touch impairment is an important but largely unappreciated aspect of quality-of-life impairment in psoriasis, Dr. April Armstrong said at the World Congress of Dermatology.
“Touch...
VANCOUVER – Six developments – daylight photodynamic therapy, body sculpting, better laser treatments for tattoo removal, marketing of home-use fractionated lasers for skin rejuvenation, novel lasers...
VANCOUVER – Dapsone gel 5% proved effective and well tolerated for facial acne in women with skin of color in a multicenter pilot study.
The study was conducted because even though dapsone gel 5%...
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Topical tofacitinib shows promise as a novel treatment for atopic dermatitis on the basis of a highly positive phase II randomized clinical trial.
The topical Janus kinase...
VANCOUVER – Atopic dermatitis arising de novo in patients in their 60s or older with no history of the disease poses a diagnostic challenge, and a low threshold for biopsy is warranted, Dr. Thomas...
Health professionals from two cohort studies who consumed citrus products more than 1.6 times a day had a 36% higher risk of developing cutaneous malignant melanoma, compared with those who consumed...
Afamelanotide dramatically reduces the number and severity of phototoxic reactions, shortens recovery time, and markedly improves disease-related quality of life in adults who have erythropoietic...
People are using indoor tanning less, according to new statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We observed significant reductions in indoor tanning from 2010 to...
VANCOUVER, B.C. – In the first head-to-head trial in atopic dermatitis, cyclosporine was about five times more effective in terms of SCORAD 50 but was associated with more adverse events, Dr....
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Occupational hand eczema is worse and more persistent in smokers than nonsmokers, a large prospective cohort study found.
“Tobacco smoking is associated with work absenteeism and...