Dermatology News

• ASH 2024 Iron Overload: What Hematologists Should Know Phlebotomy — reducing blood volume — is a common treatment for both cutaneous porphyria and hemochromatosis.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Autonomous Imaging Device Matches Manual Dermoscopy A study finds that an autonomous imaging device produces high-quality dermoscopic images with improved efficiency compared with a traditional method.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• AAD 2025 As Dermatology Continues to Grow, Pediatric Derm Numbers Lag Pediatric dermatologists love what they do but struggle to attract others to their subspecialty.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Novel JAK Inhibitor Improves QOL in Chronic Hand Eczema Treatment with delgocitinib cream leads to improvement in health-related quality of life in patients with moderate to severe chronic hand eczema, according to a phase 2b trial.
  Medscape News UK, April 10, 2025
• AAN 2025 AI-Powered Wearable Calms Essential Tremor The Felix NeuroAI wristband delivers tailored and dynamic electrical stimulation to the ulnar, median, and radial nerves throughout the day to relieve essential tremor.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• New Scoring System May Streamline Food Allergy Diagnosis The NAPFA score may predict which children have a food allergy, even without allergy test results.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• WCM-EADO 2025 Is Drug Holiday Safe in Metastatic Melanoma? Good response rates were seen even after immunotherapy re-initiation following a drug holiday.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• WCM-EADO 2025 Confirmed Benefit of Adjuvant Therapy in Stage III Melanoma Real-world data show that adjuvant therapy, not complete nodal dissection, is crucial for preventing relapse in patients with stage III melanoma.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• AI, Targeted Combinations Advance NSCLC Treatment Landscape From new KRAS and HER2 inhibitors to home-administered immunotherapy, recent trials mark a turning point in how metastatic lung cancer is managed.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Infections Higher With JAK Inhibitors in Eczema Study A prospective registry study found a greater risk for infections associated with JAK inhibitors in adolescents and adults with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis compared with biologics.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• ACC 2025 Private Equity Booms in Cardiology The cost of heart disease and high-priced procedures are fueling a surge in private equity–acquired cardiovascular outpatient practices and experts discuss how this is affecting patients.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Serum IFN Score May Predict Outcome in Diffuse Cutaneous SSc Serum type I interferon scores may help identify patients with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis with higher disease activity and poorer prognosis.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Dysautonomia Tied to Increased Risk for SD A large database study suggests that patients with primary dysautonomias face a significantly increased risk for seborrheic dermatitis, especially when exposed to psychotropic medications.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• 3D TBP for Melanoma: More Excisions, No Clear Benefit A study finds that 3D total-body photography increases excisions in high-risk patients but fails to improve melanoma detection or cost-effectiveness.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Do Low-Grade Toxicities Affect Melanoma Treatment Success? The burden of low-grade toxicity is clinically significant in patients treated with adjuvant pembrolizumab for stage III melanoma.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• New 'surprising' Case Of Mpox Variant Clade Lb Detected in England Britain's health security agency said on Monday another case of the mpox variant clade lb had been detected in England in a person who had no reported travel history or link...
  Reuters Health Information, April 07, 2025
• WCM-EADO 2025 Assay Shows Promise for Early Melanoma Risk Stratification The Merlin assay may help identify patients who can forgo sentinel lymph node biopsy.
  Medscape Medical News, April 07, 2025
• Andi Biotic: Cartoon Crusader Tackling Superbug Resistance Cartoon mascot ‘Andi Biotic’ is the face of a public health campaign to combat antimicrobial resistance, as data revealed 41% of young adults obtain antibiotics incorrectly.
  Medscape News UK, April 07, 2025
• Lags in Psoriatic Arthritis vs Rheumatoid Arthritis Care Patients with psoriatic arthritis experience longer delays in diagnosis, receive less intensive therapy, and show less improvement in disease activity than matched patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
  Medscape News UK, April 07, 2025