Dermatology News

• HPV Vaccine May Cut Actinic Keratosis Burden Standard HPV vaccination may reduce actinic keratosis burden in immunocompetent individuals with multiple lesions.
  Medscape News UK, March 13, 2025
• AAD 2025 Dupilumab Shown to Reduce Symptoms, Steroid Use in BP Dupilumab had a fivefold improvement in sustained disease remission in bullous pemphigoid compared with placebo, along with a significant reduction in oral corticosteroid use.
  Medscape Medical News, March 13, 2025
• VEXAS and Related Syndromes Share Immune Signatures The discovery of shared cytokine-driven inflammation and interferon activation in VEXAS syndrome, MDS-cutis, and Sweet syndrome suggests potential therapeutic targets.
  Medscape Medical News, March 13, 2025
• Chronic Skin Effects Persist After Cancer Immunotherapy Chronic cutaneous adverse events affected 8% of patients after checkpoint inhibitor therapy in a cohort study, often persisting for years.
  Medscape Medical News, March 12, 2025
• Deucravacitinib Meets Endpoints in Phase 3 PsA Trial Treatment with deucravacitinib in patients with active PsA showed higher response rates and improvement in quality of life than placebo, according to findings from a phase 3 trial.
  Medscape Medical News, March 12, 2025
• Upadacitinib Shows Efficacy in Refractory Crohn's Disease Upadacitinib induction therapy provides steroid-free clinical remission in over 50% of patients with Crohn's disease who do not respond to conventional treatment and has an acceptable safety profile.
  Medscape News UK, March 12, 2025
• AAD 2025 AI-Based Skin Cancer Screen Effective in Real World Dermatoscope imaging processed with AI has been in use in the UK for 4 years with accuracy shown to be at least equal to expert evaluation, leading to other advantages for the hospital system.
  Medscape Medical News, March 12, 2025
• AAD 2025 Investigational Alopecia Areata Drug Shows Sustained Effect In an alopecia areata trial, a novel bifunctional therapy that blocks signaling of the interleukin-7 and TSLP pathways produced impressive improvements in hair regrowth during and after therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, March 12, 2025
• Measles Cases in Texas, New Mexico Rise by 28 in Five Days as Outbreak Spreads Texas and New Mexico on Tuesday reported an increase of 28 cases of measles in the last five days, bringing the total known infections to 256 in the two states since an...
  Reuters Health Information, March 11, 2025
• MetS and Radiographic Damage in PsA: Is There a Link? Although metabolic syndrome is associated with higher PsA disease activity, it is not associated with higher PsA-related radiographic damage to the axial or peripheral joints, new study reveals.
  Medscape Medical News, March 11, 2025
• AAD 2025 Delusional Dermatoses Tamed by 'Therapeutic Alliance' Recent refinements to a multiphase approach to delusional infestations make this treatment protocol effective even within a busy clinical practice.
  Medscape Medical News, March 09, 2025
• AAD 2025 Delgocitinib Cream Produces Robust Response to Eczema Half of patients who used delgocitinib cream for chronic hand eczema had a profound response, and a third who stopped treatment stayed clear or nearly clear for 8 weeks.
  Medscape Medical News, March 09, 2025
• AAD 2025 Potentially Harmful Cosmetics Peddled to Young Girls A pediatric dermatologist calls out cosmetics retailers for aggressive marketing of products that may harm the skin of preteens and younger girls.
  Medscape Medical News, March 09, 2025
• AAD 2025 Therapeutic Advances Help Curb Hyperhidrosis Treatment options for hyperhidrosis have evolved to include well-tolerated therapies with high rates of response.
  Medscape Medical News, March 09, 2025
• Poor Air Quality Linked to AD Risk in Offspring Prenatal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at levels above 65 µg/m³ was associated with a sharp rise in atopic dermatitis (AD) in a birth cohort study.
  Medscape Medical News, March 09, 2025
• Doctors Push Back as Parents Embrace Kennedy and Vitamin A in Texas Measles Outbreak As a measles outbreak spreads across West Texas, Dr. Ana Montanez is fighting an uphill battle to convince some parents that vitamin A - touted by vaccine critics as...
  Reuters Health Information, March 08, 2025
• Remibrutinib Yields Rapid, Sustained Relief in Urticaria Remibrutinib significantly reduces itch and hives in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria in two identical randomized trials.
  Medscape Medical News, March 07, 2025
• Low-Dose Minocycline Bests Doxycycline as Rosacea Rx Patients with moderate to severe papulopustular rosacea have better outcomes with low-dose minocycline than with placebo and doxycycline, according to two randomized trials.
  Medscape Medical News, March 07, 2025
• Nigeria to Receive Leprosy Drugs After a Year-long Delay The World Health Organization says it will send leprosy drugs to Nigeria this weekend after resolving testing hold-ups that led to a year-long delay in thousands of...
  Reuters Health Information, March 07, 2025
• From Fighting HIV to Interpreters, USAID Cuts Wide Swath of Programs The Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development has targeted a huge range of programs for cuts, from a few thousand dollars for an...
  Reuters Health Information, March 06, 2025