Dermatology World Insights and Inquiries

After using a drug for years, physicians become comfortable with the benefits and risks of the frequently prescribed agent. I have utilized ustekinumab extensively — learning of new adverse reactions is sobering.

PML is a nightmare. For any dermatologist seeing patients with autoimmune diseases, HIV, lymphoproliferative disorders, or who are on immunosuppressive medications, PML is a ‘sword of Damocles’ ...

Prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, measles killed more than 2·5 million people annually. 

As a dermatology resident, I was mesmerized by the concept of “angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia” (AILD) after seeing a patient presented at our weekly conference...

Does gestational vitiligo affect the outcome of pregnancy?

Widespread actinic keratoses are problematic to patients and physicians, not only because of their pre-cancerous nature, but because of the cosmesis and discomfort associated with them. 

The Janus kinase inhibitors are taking the dermatologic therapeutic world by storm — at least in the literature. 

I recently encountered a patient who expressed his disappointment in me, complaining that I was too slow to diagnose a lentigo maligna in a facial solar lentigo...

Tick-induced mammalian meat allergy (MMA) has become an emergent allergy on six continents where humans are bitten by ticks.

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