Dermatology News

• 2021 May Be Big Lyme Disease Year For the first time, Lyme disease-carrying ticks -- typically associated with woodlands in New England and other forested regions of the US -- have been found in abundance near beaches in Northern California, new research shows.
  WebMD Health News, May 07, 2021
• Fecal Transplantation Safe but Ineffective in PsA Trial A trial found fecal microbiota transplantation in psoriatic arthritis inferior to sham but safe, and investigators said it's worthy of future study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• BSR 2021 Antibiotic Cut ANCA-Vasculitis Infection Risk With Rituximab Co-use of cotrimoxazole decreased the risk for infection, which remains high in patients with vasculitis who are treated with rituximab.
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• FDA Panel Narrowly Backs Avacopan Approval The FDA is mulling whether to approve avacopan for ANCA-associated vasculitis largely on the basis of a single trial about which the agency staff has concerns.
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• Topol Talks: COVID-19 Variants Are Innocent Until Proven Guilty Medscape Medical News Editor-in-Chief Eric Topol, MD, addresses the ability of current and future COVID-19 vaccines to combat SARS-CoV-2 variants and other obstacles to pandemic "containment."
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• Telemedicine Is a Tool — Not a Replacement for a Doctor's Touch Many new types of telemedicine promoted by start-ups more clearly benefit providers' and investors' pockets, rather than yielding more convenient, high-quality and cost-effective medicine for patients.
  Kaiser Health News, May 06, 2021
• Tofacitinib: Big Cutaneous Sarcoidosis Response in Small Study "Not only did patients get better, but they were in many cases able to come off their baseline immunosuppressive regimen."
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2021
• Drug Monitoring Has Little Value During Infliximab Induction Results of a randomized controlled trial do not support routine use of proactive therapeutic drug monitoring during infliximab induction for improving disease remission rates in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
  Reuters Health Information, May 04, 2021
• AAD VMX 2021 For Diagnosing Skin Lesions, AI Risks Failing in Skin of Color There has been "very little representation in darker skin types" in the machine learning algorithms developed so far.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2021
• AAD VMX 2021 Checkpoint Inhibitor Skin Side Effects More Common in Women A small review found a doubling of the odds, but reasons are unclear.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2021
• AAD VMX 2021 LGBTQ Patients Face Unique Skin Risks The lifetime prevalence of skin cancer was migher among gay and bisexual men than among heterosexual men in a recent study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 03, 2021
• ISAD 2021 Emollient Data Discouraging for Atopic Dermatitis Prevention Emollients did not appear to prevent atopic dermatitis in a trial of babies at high risk for the disease.
  Medscape Medical News, May 03, 2021
• ACP 2021 Most Labeled Penicillin-Allergic Are No Longer Intolerant Of the 10% of the population whose records say they are allergic to penicillin, 90% can tolerate it now, says an expert. Mislabeling has consequences for outcomes and antibiotic resistance.
  Medscape Medical News, April 30, 2021
• Physician Sexual Misconduct: Stronger Action Needed, FSMB Says The Federation of State Medical Boards working group has issued a set of recommendations on sexual misconduct toward patients by physicians.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2021
• TNFi Linked to Threefold Higher Psoriasis Risk in JIA Patients Although this study confirms earlier findings of an increased risk of psoriasis after TNF inhibitor exposure, it does not necessarily change the JIA management plan for most patients, an expert said.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2021
• Studies Add to Knowledge Base of Biosimilars for Psoriasis, HS The results add to mounting evidence that biosimilars may be interchangeable in certain dermatologic conditions.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2021
• ISAD 2021 Atopic Dermatitis Genes Vary With Ethnicity Koreans with atopic dermatitis don't share the same genetic biomarkers as other populations studied so far.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2021
• Corticosteroids for cirAEs May Have No Impact on Cancer Survival Use of systemic corticosteroids to treat cutaneous immune-related adverse events brought on by immune-checkpoint inhibitor cancer therapy does not appear to have any significant impact on survival, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, April 27, 2021
• AAD VMX 2021 Study Finds Psoriasis Associated With an Increased COVID-19 Risk In the study, some systemic treatments appeared to lower risk in patients, compared with those on topical therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2021
• Novel BRAF-Inhibitor Cream Ameliorates Rash From EGFR Inhibitors First-in-human study shows a novel, topically applied cream appears to ameliorate the acneiform rash seen with EGFR inhibitors such as cetuximab and panitumumab.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2021