JDD May Issue Highlights
JDD MayHere are the issue highlights and editor picks for JDD's May issue: Broad area ALA may be beneficial for prevention of new or recurrent lesion formation in patients at high risk for AK and NMSC in A Randomized Trial of Broad Area ALA–PDT for Field Cancerization Mitigation in High-Risk Patients.   Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Repeat-Dose Injections of IncobotulinumtoxinA in the Tre …
JDD May
Coronavirus & Alopecia Reporting Database
coronavirus alopecia databaseEPI Health has graciously supported the COVID-19 News and Resource Center. SECURE-Alopecia is a physician-entered patient registry to record COVID-19 positive alopecia patient outcomes, on or off treatment, with scarring and non-scarring alopecia. Clinicians worldwide are encouraged to report ALL cases of COVID-19 in their alopecia patients treated with antimalarials, JAK inhibitors (given the …
coronavirus alopecia database
Journal Review Series: April-June 2019
Journal Review SeriesNext Steps in Derm author, Dr. Anna Chacon, searched the journals so that you don’t have to! She reports on important take-aways from different dermatology journals for the months of April, May, and June of 2019. It is key to keep in mind that “important” is subjective and what is contained in this review is one person’s view of what should be remembered from these months of the literat …
Journal Review Series
Friday Pop Quiz #64
The correct answer is C. Pulse dye laser. This is a port wine stain and the gold standard of treatment is the pulse dye laser. The long pulse KTP can also be used but it is not the best laser choice. PDL is useful in the treatment of port wine stains (vascular malformations), superficial hemangiomas and a variety of acquired cutaneous vascular lesions, including telangiectasis, cherry an …
Are Dermatologists Prepared to Treat COVID-19 Patients?
Dermatologists and COVID-19EPI Health has graciously supported the COVID-19 News and Resource Center. Allure recently posted an article on why dermatologists and plastic surgeons are preparing to join other medical professionals in the fight against COVID-19. Are dermatologists prepared to treat patients with contagious respiratory illness? For an expert opinion, I consulted dermatologist Sheila Farhang, MD, Mohs …
Dermatologists and COVID-19
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