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Some pharmaceutical companies feel the need to provide such incentives to be able to approach certain physicians in private practice.

National report - Sexual transmission of community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) may be an important and underappreciated part of the recent upsurge in infections across the country.

I've heard people described as Latin, Spanish or Hispanic in their background. How do you define people of color?

Psychodermatology can go beyond the trichotillomania or excoriation of severe psychosis and can present with virtually the same symptoms as completely physiologically caused skin conditions.

Dr. Toro says that patients with TRAPS generally do not respond to treatment with colchicine. They respond to high-dose corticosteroids, but long-term side effects limit their use.

Cold, dry air, coupled with blustery winds, exacts a toll on even the heartiest skin.

Liposuction can also be used to help improve the appearance of cellulite. But it, too, has limitations.

Make sure you use an acetone-free nail polish remover, as well as a nail polish that is free of formaldehyde and toluene.

Rochester, N.Y. - Ivanhoe Newswire reports that a University of Rochester Medical Center study links the ApoE-4 gene with the herpes simplex 1 (HSV-1) virus, which is commonly associated with cold sores but also can travel to the brain.

Los Angeles - The Associated Press reports that a hand-held laser may be the cause of a recent Los Angeles office building fire that caused $200,000 in damage.

Washington - Reuters reports that pharmaceutical companies would have to pay $6.25 million in new fees next year to help fund a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of TV commercials for their products.

Bay St. Lous, Miss. - A type of staph infection may be causing skin lesions and sores that have appeared on post-Katrina volunteer workers in southern Mississippi in recent months.

Washington - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ruled that the oral contraceptive YAZ can also be used by women to control moderate acne.

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The various types of this multi-etiologic disease can be categorized as septal, lobular or a combination of septal and lobular panniculitis.

National report - The Food and Drug Administration's approval process can seem mysterious to most physicians, who lack the time to study the process, experts say.

National report - Keep this in mind when bizarre cases show up - "Zebras are rare, but not everything is a horse," and, "Break down the systems causing hard-to-diagnose dermatologic conditions," ask questions, take time to diagnose - and don't be afraid to not know the answer the first day.

While the future for investors and savers is, as always, a bit cloudy, it's likely that sticking with the basics will continue to be your best bet.

Las Vegas - Complications are bound to occur in varying degrees of severity regardless of which laser a physician uses in cosmetic interventions.

It is the TCA application, and not self-healing processes, that activates the dermal fibroblasts and results in significant morphologic changes.

Q What is the mechanism of action of lip plumping cosmetics?

Berlin - Fine-tuning the botulinum toxin injection techniques and tailoring these techniques to each patient individually requires attention to certain details, and is the key to successful outcomes, according to one expert.

Post-treatment, the Masson's trichrome stain demonstrated that the collagen fibers significantly took up more blue stain, and the elastic fiber stain clearly showed an increase in the number of elastic fibers.

Cancer researchers are trying to develop multi-antigen vaccines in order to increase the efficacy of the vaccine.

National report - A bizarre case involving an apparent cyst will always hold a couple of lessons for William Philip Werschler, M.D.

Although dermatologists are very familiar with PXE, they're likely to see only a handful of cases during their careers.

Because the condition is rare, there is no one standard medication that is administered.

San Diego - The hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), also known as the mother of all hormones, is the precursor of androgens and estrogens and is tagged by some physicians as a wonder drug when supplements are taken for certain disease states and in certain doses.

National report - Cephalexin (Keflex, Dista and generics) and cefdinir (Omnicef) are both well-tolerated when administered orally for infection prophylaxis in patients undergoing in-office cutaneous surgical procedures.