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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
DENVER – As many as 25% of Medicare patients with melanoma will experience treatment delays of up to 1.5 months, and 18% may have treatment delays as long as 3 months after a lesion is biopsied,...
SAN DIEGO – Approximately one-quarter of patients diagnosed with physical urticaria actually responded when challenged, based on data from a study conducted at the National Institutes of Health....
SILVER SPRING, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted unanimously to support the approval of the antibacterial drug dalbavancin for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and...
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...
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...