Robert P Dellavalle

..To compare laws governing youth access to UV irradiation at indoor tanning facilities with laws governing youth access to tobacco...

..The number of melanocytic nevi is the best single marker of increased melanoma risk. In a previous study, adults with severe eczema were reported to have significantly fewer nevi than adults without eczema...

..52, 95% CI = 0.27 to 0.99). CONCLUSIONS: These findings do not validate the possibility that statins or fibrates prevent melanoma...

..The significant constitutive expression of DeltaNp63alpha in stratified epithelium has been proposed to maintain the proliferative capacity of basal cells, blocking the consequences of inappropriate p53 activation...

..High compliance levels in states with long-standing youth access regulations (Illinois and Wisconsin) demonstrate the potential for successful tanning industry youth access regulation...

..Widespread dermatologist smallpox vaccination knowledge deficits pinpoint opportunities for educational efforts...

..Dermatologists regard indoor UV tanning more negatively compared with other physicians. Physician sex and geographic location were associated with specific indoor UV tanning attitudes...

..Brief summaries of each article in this issue of Dermatologic Clinics are provided along with recommendations for better addressing dermatologic care needs...

..How well Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) dermatology services provide clinical care, medical education, and innovative research is a largely unexplored topic in the literature...

..Many board-certified dermatologists are not advertising this certification...

..CONCLUSION: Our sample of indoor tanning facility operators believed that minimum age and parental consent regulations for indoor tanning should be required...

..This study describes consumer health risks information provided by indoor UV tanning facility operators in four states (Colorado, Illinois, Texas, and Wisconsin) with varying operator training, regulations, enforcement and penalties...

..CONCLUSION: The work performed by the Cochrane Skin Group is an important component for informing the evidence base for the clinical practice of cutaneous and surgical dermatology...

..This study examines how accounting for citation origin affects the impact factor ranking of dermatology journals...

..CONCLUSION: Because no agent yet emerges as a clear choice for effective melanoma chemoprevention, sun avoidance and sun protection remain the mainstay of melanoma prevention for persons at high risk...

..Public health skin cancer prevention policies should include the prohibition of UV tanning advertising to minors...

..To examine attitudes toward evidence-based medicine and evidence-based dermatology and to assess evidence-based training in US internal medicine and dermatology residency programs...

..Common priorities for all infectious skin disease categories include increased disease surveillance, study of existing treatments, and efforts in drug development...

..To evaluate residents' satisfaction with dermatology training and mentorship...

..Fellow evaluation is required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Procedural dermatology fellowship accreditation by the ACGME began in 2003 while dermatopathology accreditation began in 1976...

..The use of review databases for dermatology has been questioned because of the impression that these reviews frequently report finding insufficient evidence to guide therapeutic recommendations...

..CONCLUSION: Given that open pediatric dermatology faculty positions greatly exceed the number of fellows in training and that formal training requirements will be increasing, the shortage of pediatric dermatologists will likely continue...

..In one biopsy specimen, abnormal keratinocytes bridging the follicular infundibulum were seen. We concluded that UV exposure and HPV viral infection may be risk factors for the formation of epidermoid inclusion cysts...

..Although they have not been extensively studied, alternative agents including dapsone, salicylic acid, azelaic acid, and zinc are safe and efficacious when combined with traditional therapies...

..Policies that improve access to novel questionnaires will allow better assessment of study results, reduce duplicated efforts, and improve authorship attribution for questionnaire design...

..Lovastatin induced caspase-dependent apoptosis in multiple melanoma cell lines via a geranylation-specific mechanism. This study supports a possible role of lovastatin as a therapeutic, adjuvant or chemopreventive agent for melanoma...

..Dermatologists and other health care providers should recognize the importance of social media websites and their potential usefulness for disseminating health information...

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..Disease discussions address epidemiology, costs to society and patients, prevention, treatment, gaps in management, and future recommendations...

..This article discusses the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and treatment of acne vulgaris. The burden of disease in the United States and future directions in the management of acne are also addressed...

..Future studies, hopefully, will yield concrete answers and clarify the role of commonly available dietary nutrients in melanoma chemoprevention...

..This article describes recent developments in health care consumer activism including dermatology disease advocacy and efforts to improve dermatologist-patient interactions...

..Publishers, librarians, and readers need to reassess policies, archiving systems, and other resources for addressing Internet reference attrition to prevent further information loss...

..CONCLUSION: In this preliminary open label study topical imiquimod 5% cream was well tolerated and associated with a histologic and clinical response rate of 50%...

..Therefore, CUSP appears to be present, unmutated, and yet frequently undetectable by immunofluorescence in cutaneous lesions in both humans and mice that are associated with SHH pathway dysregulation (BCCs, BCNS, and nevus sebaceous)...

..This article reviews melanoma biology and the clinical evidence for the use of lipid-lowering medications for melanoma chemoprevention and/or adjuvant chemotherapy...

..We describe a fulminant case of linear IgA bullous dermatosis in a 74-year-old man who experienced skin sloughing of 90% of his body surface after receiving vancomycin...

..7%). CONCLUSIONS: Uniform resource locators are increasingly used and lost in dermatology journals. Loss will continue until better preservation policies are adopted...

..This article reviews clinical and analytic epidemiology pertinent to reading, interpreting, and critically examining the literature, and presents an overview of evidence-based dermatology as a starting point for further study...