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Politics is a popular but touchy subject. We wondered whether dermatologists' patients are raising the issue of healthcare reform during visits, and, if so, how the derms are handling those questions.

As a physician, do you realize that, between income, capital gains, Medicare, self-employment and other taxes, you spend 40 percent to 50 percent of your working hours laboring for the IRS and your state?

At age 32, having just become a board-certified dermatologist, Wilma Fowler Bergfeld, M.D., was already feeling antsy about what she would tackle next. So, she set goals one lonely night at her desk, and decided that she would become the first female president of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD).

A proposed 10 percent tax on indoor tanning services is part of a revised Senate healthcare reform bill now headed to conference committee with a House bill.

A new study supports speculation that exposure to low level laser therapy may stimulate proliferation of melanoma cells.

At present, organic skincare products can be anything the manufacturer wants them to be.

Various hyaluronic acid-based fillers are being widely used in cosmetic dermatology, and potential competitors to established products such as Botox are being investigated in trials.

Rx for Medicine : SGR fix in balance as Senate debates healthcare reform On the Mend? : Fillers, toxins market ‘resilient,’ due for possible bounceback, analyst says Special Report : Wound healing

The entire financial world was turned upside down during the years 2008 and 2009. Investors, executives, employees and the general public are left wondering, "Whom can I trust?" and "How will all these changes affect me?"

Developments that link HPV to skin cancer could change the frontiers of medicine.

Investigators have found that a particular nicotinic acid receptor has increased expression in later stages of SCC, indicating that this receptor may represent a target for therapy in nonmelanoma skin cancer.

Physicians' efforts to collect from patients are exponentially better nowadays, but patient statements haven't changed in decades: a slip of paper is popped into an envelope and mailed every 30 days. In this volatile, changing economy, it's time to overhaul your dermatology practice's approach to patient statements.

In humans, rare animal-type melanoma variant seems to be more bark than bite.

Treatment of melomental fold rhytids with both Botox and an HA filler affords long-lasting results.

William Baugh, M.D., was a liberal arts student at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, Calif., when he first volunteered for an outreach trip to help less-fortunate people in Mexico. That decision ultimately was the springboard to a future in medicine.

National report - Chandra, Jordan and Trae Berns have carried severe scars over much of their bodies since the 22-year-old triplets suffered third-degree burns in a house fire at the age of 17 months.

Washington - The Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged receipt of Sol-Gel’s Investigational New Drug Application (IND) for DER45-EV Gel for the topical treatment of rosacea, reports Medical News Today.

Berkeley Heights, N.J. - Pharmaceutical company Genta Inc., based here, announced recently that a phase 3 drug trial for the melanoma drug Genasense showed no statistically significant benefit compared with a placebo, reports news source Foxbusiness.com.

Cleveland - The National Institutes of Health has awarded Pratima Karnik, Ph.D., assistant professor of dermatology at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University, a grant of $1.77 million to fund a five-year study titled “PPAR-gamma Signaling in Normal Pilosebaceous Units and in Scarring Alopecia,” reports the Cicatricial Alopecia Research Foundation (CARF).

Minneapolis - Results of a recently completed study appear to establish the efficacy of Levulan Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) in reducing the recurrence of squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) in solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs), reports PRNewswire.

Be’er Sheva, Israel - A new Israeli invention allows cancerous skin tumors to be detected and examined before they become visible to the naked eye, reports news source Haaretz.com.

London - Researchers from Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Research Institute say they have found how two genes from the same “family” can interact to stop cancer, reports News-medical.net.

The entire financial world was turned upside down during the years 2008 and 2009. Investors, executives, employees and the general public are left wondering, "Whom can I trust?" and "How will all these changes affect me?"

Developments that link HPV to skin cancer could change the frontiers of medicine.

Investigators have found that a particular nicotinic acid receptor has increased expression in later stages of SCC, indicating that this receptor may represent a target for therapy in nonmelanoma skin cancer.

Physicians' efforts to collect from patients are exponentially better nowadays, but patient statements haven't changed in decades: a slip of paper is popped into an envelope and mailed every 30 days. In this volatile, changing economy, it's time to overhaul your dermatology practice's approach to patient statements.

Treatment of melomental fold rhytids with both Botox and an HA filler affords long-lasting results.

With the House and Senate attempting to advance differing visions of healthcare reform, a long-term fix for Medicare's broken sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula hangs in the balance, dermatologists say.

In humans, rare animal-type melanoma variant seems to be more bark than bite.

William Baugh, M.D., was a liberal arts student at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, Calif., when he first volunteered for an outreach trip to help less-fortunate people in Mexico. That decision ultimately was the springboard to a future in medicine.