Dermatology News

The FDA has issued a warning about inadvertent exposure to Evamist — the only FDA-approved estrogen therapy spray — in children and pets, and is currently reviewing reports of adverse events at this time.

Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most important organisms causing health care-associated infections with onset either in the hospital or in the community.

Congenital syphilis transmission rates nearly doubled among infants born in the southern part of the United States between 2005 and 2008, but remained relatively stable overall, according to CDC data published online today.

More than half of health care workers who participated in a survey reported using chlorohexidine gluconate in neonatal intensive care units despite recommendations to the contrary, survey results presented at the Fifth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections in Atlanta indicated.

Novel approaches to treating acne and rosacea, combined with careful skin care, may reduce the severity and improve the appearance of both conditions, according to a speaker at the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Mounting resistance to traditional head lice therapies, such as over-the-counter topical permethrin and synthetic pyrethroids, has prompted research into alternative therapies, according to a speaker at the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology in Miami Beach, Fla.

Finishing rounds in the nursery, you begin to examine the last newborn. The patient is an infant boy born via normal spontaneous vaginal delivery at 39 weeks gestation to a G2P1001 healthy mother. There were no complications with the pregnancy or delivery. While evaluating the scalp, you notice an area of alopecia on the vertex of the scalp. You review the records again and confirm that instrumentation was not required to assist in the delivery. However, he did have a fetal scalp monitor. Upon further examination, you see a discrete 2-cm well-defined, smooth, round, skin-colored alopecic plaque. The hair shafts surrounding the plaque are darker and thicker than his other hairs and form a distinct ring. The neurological examination and remainder of the physical examination are normal.

There are conflicting data regarding the best approach for treating children who are colonized with community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but incision and drainage may be enough for abscesses less than 5 cm, according a speaker at the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases’ 2010 Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance in Bethesda, Md.

Contact dermatitis cases caused by toilet seats appear to be making a comeback in pediatricians’ offices, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore.

Vertical transmission of molluscum contagiosum between a pregnant mother and her child is likely the source of neonatal infections with this pathogen, a recently published case report indicated.