Dermatitis News

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America and actress Vicki Lawrence are teaming up in a new educational campaign on chronic idiopathic urticaria.

Lifetime prevalence of dermatitis on the hands and feet were affected by filaggrin null mutations in patients with a history of atopic dermatitis, according to recently published study results.

HOUSTON — Clinicians who treat patients with urticaria should be wary about the differences in clinical trajectories in patients when diagnosing and treating the disease, according to a presenter at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Meeting.

Topical pimecolimus treatment in children with atopic dermatitis appeared to have no association with increased risk of malignancy when compared with other data, according to recently published study results.

Recent study findings involving pediatric dermatology included the potential association between moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis with central obesity and increased blood pressure in children.

Newborn children lacking filaggrin and experiencing high transepidermal water loss at 2 days and 2 months are at an increased risk for atopic dermatitis, according to study results.

The absence of urticaria or angioedema in reactions to Hymenoptera stings with hypotension may represent the most relevant factor in identifying patients with mastocytosis, according to recent study results.

Age at the time of disease onset, gender and the initial dose of prednisolone were significantly associated with the severity of physical dysfunction in the treatment of polymyositis and dermatomyositis, according to research presented at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting.

In vivo skin tests indicated sensitization to penicillin may develop within infectious mononucleosis, according to recent study results in Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology.

Developments regarding dermatitis and psoriasis were the most read articles during the past week in Healio Dermatology.