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Adherence to Topical Treatment Can Improve Treatment-Resistant Moderate Psoriasis
Most patients with psoriasis are good candidates for topical treatment. However, psoriasis often is resistant to topical treatment. This study...
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How Do Drug Shortages Affect Dermatologists?
Drug shortages have the potential to diminish health outcomes; therefore, it is important for dermatologists to be aware of current shortages...
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Automobile Injury: A Common Familiar Risk for Presenting and Comparing Risks in Dermatology
Patient’s fears regarding rare potential adverse events can lead to poor adherence and treatment refusal, even for the most efficacious treatments...
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Strategies to Reduce Youth Indoor Tanning Injuries
Targeted campaigns have been largely unsuccessful in discouraging minors from tanning. New approaches to combating adolescent tanning injuries may...
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Psychosocial Impact of Psoriasis: A Review for Dermatology Residents
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease with both a physical and psychosocial burden. To offer strategies for dermatology residents to assess...
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Topical Corticosteroid Tachyphylaxis: Why Don’t Patients Adhere to Treatment?
In this episode of the “Peer to Peer” podcast series with Dr. Vincent DeLeo, Dr. Steven Feldman discusses results from a recent study he and his...
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Topical Corticosteroids for Treatment-Resistant Atopic Dermatitis
Although topical corticosteroids are the mainstay of treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD), these medications may lose efficacy over time, a...
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Screening for Depression in Rosacea Patients
Rosacea patients often are burdened with embarrassment, social anxiety, and psychiatric comorbidities. The Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9)...
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Cost of Diagnosing Psoriasis and Rosacea for Dermatologists Versus Primary Care Physicians
Growing incentives to control health care costs may cause accountable care organizations (ACOs) to reconsider how skin disease is best managed...
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Presenting Treatment Safety Data: Subjective Interpretations of Objective Information
Educating patients about the risks of treatment is obligatory. An inherent problem with risk education is that patients can become terrified of...
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A Boxed Warning for Inadequate Psoriasis Treatment
The US Food and Drug Administration uses the term boxed warning to highlight potentially dangerous situations associated with prescription drugs....
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A Review of Patient Adherence to Topical Therapies for Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is one of the most commonly diagnosed dermatologic conditions in the United States. Topical agents are the mainstay of...
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Maintaining Adherence to Psoriasis Treatments
Adherence to psoriasis therapies, especially topical therapy, is remarkably poor. Dr. Steven Feldman discusses the patient-physician relationship...
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Most Common Dermatologic Conditions Encountered by Dermatologists and Nondermatologists
The dermatologic conditions that are most commonly encountered by nondermatologists are not well characterized, which can hamper efforts to train...
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Disease Burden and Treatment Adherence in Psoriasis Patients
Psoriasis can have a large impact on a patient’s quality of life, yet adherence to psoriasis treatment often is poor.