Allergy & Clinical Immunology News

• GRAPPA 2024 Psoriasis: Tissue Resident Memory T Cells Play Complex Role The mixed role of tissue resident memory T cells in psoriasis treatment has prompted a call for changing functionality rather than eliminating these cells.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• Cendakimab Clears Skin in Adults With Atopic Dermatitis A weekly dose of cendakimab resulted in improved skin clearance and reduced pruritus in a phase 2, 16-week study of adults with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• Beauty Bloggers Dominate TikTok's Sun Protection Content Beauty bloggers and consumers contributed to most of the content discussing sun protection and skin cancer on TikTok.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• More Illnesses Linked to Counterfeit Botulinum Toxin Each of the seven cases were linked to treatments administered in a non-medical setting.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2024
• SPD 2024 Response Rates With Vitiligo Rx Higher Among Adolescents The findings come from a post hoc analysis of data from two pivotal trials.
  Medscape Medical News, July 16, 2024
• SPD 2024 Kids With Obesity at Higher Risk for Skin Conditions Dermatologists can play a role in identifying cutaneous conditions in children with obesity and advocating for weight loss.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2024
• New Tactic to Speed Long COVID Treatments to Patients Remote clinical trials may be the key to recruiting more long COVID sufferers — and expediting new inroads to treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2024
• Three AI Technologies Poised to Transform IBD Care Experts are optimistic that image analysis, natural language processing, and generative AI will soon become foundational to the management of patients with IBD.
  Medscape Medical News, July 14, 2024
• Cytomegalovirus Shown to Cause Glioblastoma Results from a recent French study in mice will open the door to new therapeutic approaches, according to the researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, July 12, 2024
• EMA Warns of Anaphylactic Reactions to MS Drug Anaphylactic reactions to glatiramer acetate could occur months or even years after treatment, the European Medicines Agency has warned.
  Medscape Medical News, July 12, 2024
• AD in Older Adults: Common, Unique, Challenging to Manage The research on atopic dermatitis demonstrates that "the age of onset is distributed well throughout the lifespan," said Jonathan Silverberg, MD, PhD, MPH.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• Alert FDA Approves Topical Eczema Rx for Ages 6 or Older Approval was based on results from three phase 3 studies, a phase 2 dose-ranging study, and two phase 1 pharmacokinetic trials.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• Dupilumab Safe, Effective Over 5 Years in Moderate-Severe AD Long-term data confirm safety and efficacy of dupilumab treatment, which offered sustained efficacy without any new safety incidents in patients with moderate to severe AD.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• Spironolactone May Benefit Women With HS Spironolactone showed improvement in 20% women of childbearing age with hidradenitis suppurativa in a retrospective study.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• Sugar Tax Yields Sweet Health Benefits The soft drinks industry levy, popularly known as the 'sugar tax', was associated with significant reductions in consumption of free sugars from soft drinks.
  Medscape News UK, July 10, 2024
• Review: Dupilumab Benefits Kids With AD and Alopecia Areata Dupilumab treatment was associated with improved hair growth and reduced severity of atopic dermatitis in a review.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• Olympic Mindset Tips Tailor-Made for Stressed-Out Physicians No medals for second place in medicine. Use these mindset techniques from Olympic sports psychologists so you can excel under high stress like a world-class athlete.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• Dermatoporosis: Holistic, Creative Management Needed Key features of dermatoporosis include atrophic skin, solar purpura, white pseudoscars, easily acquired skin lacerations and tears, bruises, and delayed healing.
  Medscape Medical News, July 09, 2024
• US, Mexican Border Restrictions Did Not Reduce HIV Infection Measures to restrict traffic across Mexico's northern border to contain the spread of COVID-19 resulted in an increase in HIV-1 transmission among injectable drug users.
  Medscape Medical News, July 09, 2024
• Confronting Healthcare Disinformation on Social Media Patients may turn to social media, which includes unreliable sources, when they have difficulty finding the information that they need.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2024