NEW YORK – A consensus group has developed evidence-based treatment recommendations for patients with psoriatic arthritis and nail involvement and raised the possibility of issuing them independent...
COEUR D’ALENE, IDAHO – Daily use of an over-the-counter 2-minute body wash by children and adolescents with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis resulted in marked improvement in symptoms and quality...
DANA POINT, CALIF.– Materials science meets medicine. That’s the new frontier for many specialties, thanks to advances in the understanding of native tissue dynamics and how bioengineered materials...
NEW YORK – Improvements in clinical trial design for psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and other inflammatory diseases are being credited to a decision to enlist patients as full partners, not just...
NEW YORK – For the skin component of psoriatic arthritis, consensus about how high to set the bar for disease control continues to elude experts, judging from a debate about the value of...
DANA POINT, CALIF. – When you think of lasers, do you consider them as the standard of care for treatment of a range of scars, from dog bites to burns? If not, Dr. Jill Waibel, director of the Miami...
DANA POINT, CALIF. – It’s possible that burn victims and others with traumatic scarring will no longer need to have skin grafted from one part of their body, thus adding new scars, to mend the deeper...
At least two-thirds of adults with plaque psoriasis treated with the fully human anti-interleukin-17A monoclonal antibody secukinumab achieved PASI 75 at 12 weeks in two related randomized phase III...
The monoclonal antibody dupilumab, which blocks the action of the type 2 helper T-cell (Th2) cytokines interleukin-4 and interleukin-13, produced rapid and significant improvement in all signs,...
Adolescents with eczema were significantly more likely to report suicidal ideation than those who did not have eczema, based on data from a population-based study of more than 3,000 adolescents. The...
