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- Life Sciences Industry Eyes $1.5 Trillion Milestonehttps://practicaldermatology.com/news/life-sciences-industry-eyes-15-trillion-milestone/2457703/The life sciences industry is nearing a $1.5 trillion milestone, according to an analysis from Frost & Sullivan. The firm’s Global Life Sciences Industry Outlook, 2018 report finds that healthcare digitization and consumerization, the explosion of patient data, and the emergence of
- Rare Pediatric Skin Conditions Often Get Expensive, Inconsistent Carehttps://practicaldermatology.com/news/rare-pediatric-skin-conditions-often-get-expensive-inconsistent-care/2457704/Children with Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) have high rates of complications — resulting in long and costly hospital stays — and that treatment strategies varied among health care providers, according to the first large-scale analysis, which is
- FDA Approves Braftovi in Combination with Mektovi for Advanced BRAF-mutant Melanomahttps://practicaldermatology.com/news/fda-approves-of-braftovi-in-combination-with-mektovi-for-advanced-braf-mutant-melanoma/2457710/The FDA has approved Array BioPharma Inc.'s BRAFTOVI (encorafenib) capsules in combination with MEKTOVI (binimetinib) tablets for the treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma with a BRAFV600E or BRAFV600K mutation, as detected by a
- LEO Pharma and Advancing Innovation in Dermatology Partner to Help Finance Accelerator Fundhttps://practicaldermatology.com/news/leo-pharma-and-advancing-innovation-in-dermatology-partner-to-help-finance-accelerator-fund/2457713/LEO Pharma and its Boston-based R&D innovation unit LEO Science & Tech Hub, and Advancing Innovation in Dermatology (AID) will each contribute $500,000 into the recently created Advancing Innovation in Dermatology Accelerator Fund. This non-profit fund is unique in its approach for suppor
- DermTech Initiating Study to Assess DNA Damage and Reversalhttps://practicaldermatology.com/news/dermtech-initiating-study-to-assess-dna-damage-and-reversal/2457712/DermTech, Inc. has initiated enrollment in a clinical study to assess DNA damage induced by an excimer laser and evaluate the potentia
- Michael Mazen Jafar is New Chief Marketing Officer at Evolushttps://practicaldermatology.com/news/michael-mazen-jafar-is-new-chief-marketing-officer-at-elovus/2457722/Evolus, Inc. has expanded its management team with the appointment of Michael Mazen Jafar as Chief Marketing Officer. Mr. Jafar joins Evolus from Allergan where he most recently served as Vice President, Medical Aesthetics. At Allergan Mr. Jafar led the commercial launch of Juve
- Galderma Global Survey Assesses Burden of Rosaceahttps://practicaldermatology.com/news/galderma-global-survey-assesses-burden-of-rosacea/2457732/Recently released findings from Galderma’s global survey on the true burden of rosacea suggest a need for dermatologists and doctors to proactively open a dialogue with patients about the true burden of rosacea. An expert-authored report entitled Rosacea:
- White Coats, Scrubs Top Patient Preferences for Doctor's Attirehttps://practicaldermatology.com/news/white-coats-scrubs-top-patient-preferences-for-doctors-attire/2457735/What doctors wear matters…a lot, according to the largest-ever study of patient preferences for doctors’ attire. Just more than half of the 4,062 patients surveyed in the clinics and hospitals of ten major medical centers said that what physicians wear is important to th
- Spironolactone May Be an Alternative to Antibiotics in Female Acnehttps://practicaldermatology.com/news/spironolactone-may-be-an-alternative-to-antibiotics-in-female-acne/2457738/The diuretic drug spironolactone may be just as effective as antibiotics for the treatment of women’s acne, report researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The study, published in the Journal of
- PD1 Blocker Shrinks Advanced Squamous Cell Skin Cancershttps://practicaldermatology.com/news/pd1-blocker-shrinks-advanced-squamous-cell-skin-cancers/2457737/A checkpoint inhibitor shrinks the tumors of nearly half of patients with an incurable, advanced form of squamous cell carcinoma, an international team reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. “These results mark a potential paradigm shift in the treatment of pa