Linda Peckel

A multidisciplinary team of scleroderma specialists developed a framework for a comprehensive and sustainable approach to treating scleroderma.

Cancer therapies have benefits beyond simple cosmetic repairs, with significant influence on patient outcomes that improve quality of life in many domains including physical, emotional, and social.

Less than half of women experiencing hair loss have genetic origins as the cause; possible causes and treatments are reviewed.

Dermatoses of the skin, and their relevance to the early detection of many systemic forms of cancer, are reviewed.

A presentation at the 2021 Summer Meeting of the AAD reviews the novel approaches taken by the University of Mississippi, Department of Dermatology to address gaps in rural care.

Jonathan Leventhal, MD, director of the Onco-Dermatology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital, Yale-New Haven, explains prevention and treatment strategies for radiation-induced dermatitis (RID).

Dermatologists are well positioned to recognize the signs of systemic disease, explains Torunn Sivesind, MD, a dermatology fellow at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Colorado.

Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis have been associated with the underreporting and undertreatment of pain. To provide adequate care and management of pain in psoriatic disease, a multidisciplinary approach is required.

“Ageism is one of the most socially condoned and institutionalized forms of prejudice in the United States.”

A dive into the genesis of acne reveals a complex interplay of endocrinologic and immunologic mechanisms involving a marked disturbance in sebaceous gland activity.