Alopecia areata sends “hundreds of thousands” of patients to the doctor every year in the United States, and six in ten of those visits end with a corticosteroid prescription, investigators reported...
Psoriasis and acne appear to be susceptible to seasonal variations of clearing and worsening, with an analysis revealing both conditions maintained a significant trend of summer clearing and winter...
Interviewing patients who live with psoriasis can reveal important information not included in psoriasis severity measures, according to Dr. David Pariser of Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk,...
NEW YORK – Almost all women with acne will have at least a fair response to therapy with oral contraceptive pills.
Most should experience at least a 50% reduction in lesions, <a...
Patients with psoriasis are at increased risk of arrhythmia, with the risk even greater for younger patients and those with psoriatic arthritis, according to a population-based cohort study conducted...
Use of an injectable skin-lightening product poses a potential health risk to consumers, as no such product has been approved, according to a consumer alert from the Food and Drug...
NEW YORK – Antiandrogen hormones can help stabilize, and even improve, female pattern hair loss.
The pathophysiology of the disorder is unknown, but treatment is based on the assumption that women...
PARK CITY, UTAH – Dr. John J. Zone first began to study gluten sensitivity in 1977, an interest that left some of his clinician colleagues wondering why.
“Everybody told me I was crazy – that this...
PARK CITY, UTAH – Since most people with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) develop psoriasis before joint symptoms, it’s helpful to have a simple screening test for the condition.
One of Dr. Philip Mease’s...
NEW YORK – A delayed diagnosis of vulvar lichen sclerosis is common, and the risk of this delay is permanent scarring and structural genital changes, cautioned an expert who holds teaching...
