Dermatology in India

Demographics and Economics India is a populous country with close to 1.3 billion individuals. But contrarily to China it is still growing. Nevertheless, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is only US5 trillion (United States US16 trillion) and only 3.9% of GDP expenditure is for healthcare (United States: 17.9%) Enough dermatologists ? In absolute terms there…

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An Oral Treatment for Atopic Dermatitis (AD) ?

Apremilast for atopic dermatitis: reversing interleukin-4 dysregulation on primary human keratinocytes (Poster) Mohan GC et al. AAD 2015 Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA – United States INTRODUCTION Apremilast (Otezla) is an oral treatment for plaque psoriasis. It is a small molecule which acts through inhibition of phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) (In atopic dermatitis (AD), there is…

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