Dermatology News

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Other conditions being misdiagnosed as cellulitis contributes to high health care costs and a significant number of unnecessary hospital admissions, according to a speaker at Hospital Medicine 2019.

Primary care patients with inflammatory disease, particularly those with early-onset disease, demonstrate elevated rates of depression and anxiety, according to data published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Supplementing atopic dermatitis treatment with probiotics does not benefit children, according to research presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology annual meeting.

Isotretinoin was not associated with an increased risk for depression in patients with acne, according to real-world data presented at American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting.

Faced with an increasing incidence and prevalence of autoimmune disease in the United States —approximately 23.5 million Americans are affected across the country, according to the NIH — Bonnie Feldman, MBA, DDS, says it is time to acknowledge what she calls “an invisible epidemic.”

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi announced that the FDA has approved Dupixent for patients aged 12 to 17 years with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis whose disease is not adequately controlled by topical prescriptions or when those therapies are not advisable.

The FDA has proposed a rule that it says would update regulatory requirements for most sunscreen products sold in the United States.

Adults with atopic dermatitis, or eczema, have significantly higher rates of anxiety and depression than those without dermatitis, according to study findings.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, on Thursday announced that the FDA no longer intends to change the proper names of biological products that have already been licensed or approved under the Public Health Service Act without a designating suffix.

Although children with and without atopic dermatitis receive a comparable amount of sleep, children with the condition are more likely to have a reduced quality of sleep, regardless of the severity of disease.