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Psoriasis cohort reveals high arthritis risk
Psoriatic arthritis may occur more frequently among people with psoriasis than previously reported, and risk factors include having severe psoriasis, nail pitting, low education levels, and uveitis, according to findings from a Canadian cohort study. Beginning in 2006, Dr. Lihi Eder of the...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - December 3, 2015 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

Senate panel targets drug prices during FDA commissioner nomination hearing
WASHINGTON – Drug pricing was front and center as a Senate panel convened to review the nomination of Dr. Robert M. Califf as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. During a Nov. 17 hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - November 17, 2015 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

AMA expands med schools in education consortium
The American Medical Association has added 20 schools to its Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium in an effort to better prepare students for the rapid change in medical practice. “With medicine and health care delivery in the United States changing in such new and exciting ways,...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - November 6, 2015 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

Tissue-based treatment could improve psoriatic arthritis outcomes
Efforts underway to tailor psoriatic arthritis treatments to the various tissues involved in the pathogenesis of the disease could optimize therapeutic approaches, Dr. Iain McInnes said at the annual Perspectives in Rheumatic Diseases held by Global Academy for Medical Education. “Psoriatic...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - September 19, 2015 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

Automatic counseling failed to improve adolescent acne
Adding automated counseling to an acne education website had no impact on improving acne severity and quality of life, but it did encourage more patients to begin or maintain an antiacne skin care routine, based on data from a randomized trial published online May 27 in JAMA Dermatology. Patient...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - May 27, 2015 Category: Dermatology Tags: CME-candidate FPN News FPN Child & Adolescent Medicine FPN Dermatology IMN News IMN Adolescent Medicine IMN Dermatology PED News Source Type: news

VIDEO: Compliance plans, education can help physicians prevent Medicare fraud involvement
Medicare fraud and strategies to combat the crimes have become more intense as the program has grown in size and complexity, experts say. As Medicare turns 50, Dr. Julie Taitsman, chief...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - May 1, 2015 Category: Dermatology Tags: CARD Practice Economics CHEST Practice Economics CEN Practice Economics CNN Practice Economics CPN Practice Economics EM Practice Economics FPN Practice Economics HOSP Practice Economics IMN Practice Economics OBGYN Practice Economics Source Type: news