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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Psoriasis cost-effective treatments

Cost per responder of apremilast versus etanercept, adalimumab, and ustekinumab in Patients with moderate to severe psoriasis (Poster) Feldman SR et al AAD 2015 Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA – United States With the injected biologics treatment for psoriasis and the newer oral « small molecules » for the treatment of psoriasis the authors found it useful…

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Karl Marx and Hidradenitis Suppurativa (Verneuil's disease)

Karl Marx (1818-1883) is a socialist philosopher of the 19th century who is the father of modern communism (Marxism-Leninism)…and authored the Communist Manifesto (with F.Engels), one of the most important documents of the 19th century. Many countries had adopted this state mode of functioning and it counter-balanced capitalism. Marx had Hidradenitis Suppurativa (Verneuil’s disease) and…

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Morgan Freeman and Dermatosis Papulosa Nigra (DPN)

Morgan Freeman (b. 1937) is an African-American actor who displays brownish « stuck-on » papules around the eyes. These lesions are compatible with a type of seborrheic (seborrheic) keratosis called Dermatosis Papulosa Nigra (DPN) Even though the lesions are benign many choose to have them removed for cosmetic reasons. Treatment carries a risk of post-inflammatory hyper pigmentation…

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