Conference News

'Doesn't Fit Anything I Trained for': Treating Chronic Lyme Researchers, clinicians, and patient advocates at a national meeting weighed in on efforts needed to accelerate research on treatments for chronic illness associated with Lyme disease.
News, July 26, 2024
AIDS 2024 Twice-Yearly PrEP Gives 'Huge' 100% Protection Final results of the highly anticipated PURPOSE 1 trial of lenacapavir show the shots prevent new infections without many side effects.
News, July 25, 2024
EULAR 2024 Taper, Dose Down, Discontinue: Striving for Less Steroid Use Now in the 75th year since the first presentation on the clinical use of glucocorticoids, what consensus has been reached in sparing their use to avoid their many potential adverse effects?
News, July 25, 2024
GRAPPA 2024 MACE Risk Similar Among Biologics for Psoriasis, PsA A retrospective analysis shows no difference in major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) between TNF inhibitors, IL-17 inhibitors, IL-23 inhibitors, and IL-12/IL-23 inhibitors.
Clinical Summary, July 25, 2024
GRAPPA 2024 Adverse Events Differ Between Two Second-Line Psoriasis Rxs Apremilast and deucravacitinib, oral small-molecule drugs approved for treating psoriasis, were linked to different adverse events, and adverse event profiles differed between men and women.
Clinical Summary, July 25, 2024
GRAPPA 2024 MHC-1-Opathies Linked to Ancient Retrovirus Infections Psoriasis is one of several autoimmune diseases linked to variations in MHC-1 that may have protected our ancestors from retroviruses.
News, July 24, 2024
ASRS 2024 More Anti-VEGF Injections Might Increase Visual Acuity Greater vision improvements were seen in people with macular edema secondary to retinal vein occlusion who received more anti-VEGF injections over the course of 5 years.
News, July 24, 2024
ASRS 2024 Are GLP-1s Bad for Retinas? A pivotal clinical trial found an increased risk for worsening diabetic retinopathy with semaglutide, but a large database analysis of real-world patients raised questions about that finding.
News, July 23, 2024
GRAPPA 2024 Psoriatic Arthritis Treatment Failure Tied to Key Factors Comorbidities, disease characteristics, and socioeconomic factors were linked to failure to respond to disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in patients with psoriatic arthritis.
Clinical Summary, July 23, 2024
SPD 2024 Pediatric Rheumatology/Dermatology Clinic: Benefits Explored Team members participate in a preclinic conference to review patient data and images, discuss relevant literature, and develop an approach to each patient.
News, July 23, 2024
ASRS 2024 Novel Gene Therapy Safe for Retinitis Pigmentosa Phase 1/2 clinical trials demonstrated that the gene modifier improves retinal structure, function, and restores homeostasis.
News, July 23, 2024
AIDS 2024 Remembering HIV Leaders Shot Down in Plane HIV researchers and activists were killed when a missile hit their passenger airplane over Ukraine 10 years ago in the deadliest shoot-down incident to this day.
News, July 23, 2024
SPD 2024 Underserved Families Sound Off on Pediatric Derm Access The findings are based on in-depth interviews with parents and/or guardians of children who received care at a pediatric dermatology clinic.
News, July 22, 2024
ASRS 2024 Here's How to Have 'Greener' Intravitreal Injections Simple adjustments can significantly reduce environmental impact without compromising patient care.
News, July 22, 2024
SPD 2024 Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: Be Aware of Cutaneous Signs The cutaneous manifestations of Munchausen syndrome by proxy are complex, but pediatric dermatologists can play an important role in their identification.
News, July 22, 2024
SPD 2024 Colchicine Effective for Pediatric Aphthous Ulcers The findings come from a retrospective review of Mayo Clinic patients.
News, July 22, 2024
ASRS 2024 Retinal Detachment Still Sticky Issue for Stickler Syndrome Gene testing does inform diagnosis, but it can't tell doctors when to intervene with prophylactic retinal treatments.
News, July 19, 2024
GRAPPA 2024 MSK Symptoms, Psoriasis: Dermatologists or Rheumatologists? A dermatologist argues for a role to prevent psoriatic arthritis, but rheumatologist favors experience in diagnosis.
News, July 19, 2024
ASRS 2024 Eyes With IOLs Do Worse With In-Office Retina Repair A study of pneumatic retinopexy for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment showed a 54% success rate in eyes that had cataract surgery and overall success rates far below results of a key clinical trial.
News, July 19, 2024
SPD 2024 Consider Risks for Some Topical Ingredients in Children In pediatric dermatology, the list of potentially toxic products includes topical analgesics such as Castellani paint used for skin infections and alcohols used for umbilical care in newborns.
News, July 19, 2024

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