Pediatric Dermatology

Incoming AAD president looks long-range

Doctor 's efforts to improve the medical care they provide to patients often get lost in reports of drug recalls and claims of increasing medical errors. On Call talked to dermatologists around the country about ideas they have for improving the quality of care provided in doctor's offices. For most, improved care results from enhanced adjunct services, such as the way the offices deal with insurance, or how their staffs attend to details.

Part of the problem is that PG is very uncommon and can be difficult to diagnose.

Phototherapy offers good efficacy but patients can have frequent relapses.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. - Instead of prescribing drugs, a chiropractor and best-selling author based here advocates a holistic regimen that emphasizes changing the diets of psoriasis and eczema patients while ridding their bodies of toxins.

National report - When it comes to dermatologic treatments that fall outside the mainstream, patients have long found plenty of these on their own. What they don't always find is help in evaluating these treatments' effectiveness.

National report - When it comes to dermatologic treatments that fall outside the mainstream, patients have long found plenty of these on their own. What they don't always find is help in evaluating these treatments' effectiveness.

Stanley A. Klatsky, M.D., believed in cosmetic surgery when few of his plastic surgery peers would even discuss its existence.

Stasis dermatitis is a red, itchy, scaly rash that develops on the lower legs as a result of leakage of fluid from the blood vessels.

Melanoma is rare among pediatric patients, but it does occur. And the best way to determine whether to excise a lesion on a young patient is by using dermoscopy, according to Robert Johr, M.D., a dermatologist who practices in Boca Raton, Fla.

For the past few months, I have been a part of an arbitration panel of physicians, hired by an organization that gives independent opinions concerning claims for reimbursement for medical providers, pre-authorization issues and quality of care issues.

When a woman has genital itching or pain, the dermatologist is the right physician to identify the cause and solution, says Libby Edwards, M.D., chief of dermatology at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte,

Tacrolimus bests pimecrolimus for AD population

Boston - Therapeutic strategies for patients with recalcitrant or severe atopic dermatitis (AD) should include a plan to manage acute flares but also maintain disease control over the longer term, said Seth J. Orlow, M.D., Ph.D., at the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology's Derm Fest here.

Sophia Antipolis, France - Galderma's commitment to dermatology, and dermatology only, is nowhere more evident than in its sprawling, approximately 24,000-square-foot research and development facility in the south of France.

National report - As the baby boom generation ages, its members will want what they have always wanted from dermatologists - to look younger longer. At the same time, they'll encounter more age-related medical problems, while the supply of dermatologists who can meet these needs continues to dwindle.

New York - A recent study suggests Propionobacterium acnes plays a role in the development of rosacea.

Acne phototherapy has a very favorable safety profile.

(FDA) advisory committee members voted 16-8 in favor of a mandatory registry, a plan which was also supported by Hoffman-LaRoche and generic isotretinoin manufacturers.

New York-Chronic persistent acne in adult women is a common problem that often has some underlying hormonal influence, said Diane S. Berson, M.D., at the American Academy of Dermatology's Academy '04 here.

For mild-to-moderate comedonal acne, he says, he usually begins with topical retinoids.

XMP.629 belongs to the BPI family of compounds ... it is able to kill gram-negative bacteria by selectively altering their outer membrane permeability.

Success in treating acne makes some patients happy, but not all.

For more acne coverage, see our special supplement with this issue.

National report - Patients continue to seek relief and cures for skin maladies through a variety of sources, including general practitioners, home remedies, mass-media marketing and research enhanced by the Internet.