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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Dermatology

Dermatology current awareness bulletin

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October 2025

Adalimumab monotherapy vs adalimumab with methotrexate for psoriasis

Adjuvant cemiplimab or placebo in high-risk cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma

Amelanotic melanoma: diagnostic challenges, treatment innovations, and the emerging role of in early detection

Burden of skin cancer in older adults from 1990 to 2021 and modelled projection to 2050

Comparison of botulinum toxin A formulations for glabellar strain treatment in women: a double-blind randomized clinical trial

Dermatologic care and skin health of migrant populations in the US: a scoping review

Enhancing dermatology education: a short-course intervention for final-year medical students

Ferroptosis: a targetable vulnerability for melanoma treatment

Filaggrinopathies—FLG/FLG2: diagnostic complexities and immunotherapy

Focusing on the dark side of the moon: involvement of the nonlesional skin in vitiligo

Ivarmacitinib for moderate to severe atopic dermatitis in adults and adolescents: a phase 3 randomized clinical trial

Melatonin and the skin: current progress and perspectives for human health

Neighborhood socioeconomic status and new hidradenitis suppurativa diagnoses in a single health system

A 'normal' life: a qualitative study exploring parents' experiences of everyday life with a child diagnosed with atopic dermatitis and atopic comorbidities

Not just skin deep: reframing chronic inflammatory skin disease as a systemic threat

Out of this world: wound healing on Earth and in space

Photographs of non-melanoma skin tumours submitted by patients improve preoperative triage

Recent advances in juvenile dermatomyositis: moving toward integration of myositis-specific antibody clinical phenotypes, IFN-driven pathogenesis, and targeted therapies

Rilzabrutinib in antihistamine-refractory chronic spontaneous urticaria: the RILECSU phase 2 randomized clinical trial

Roflumilast foam, 0.3%, for psoriasis of the scalp and body: the ARRECTOR phase 3 randomized clinical trial

The role and implications of epidermal dysfunction in the pathogenesis of inflammaging

The role of crosstalk between NETs and keratinocytes in skin immunity

Skin cancer prevention and sunscreens

What are patients’ perceptions and attitudes regarding the use of artificial intelligence in skin cancer screening and diagnosis? Narrative review

Sources

BMC Medical Education (Jul); BMJ, The (Jul); Internal Medicine Journal (Jul); JAMA Dermatology (Jul); Journal of Investigative Dermatology (Jun-Aug); Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health (Aug); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Sep); NEJM (Aug); Scandinavian Journal of Primary Care Health (Jun)

August 2025

3D total-body photography in patients at high risk for melanoma: a randomized clinical trial

Area deprivation index and melanoma thickness in veterans

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for assessing and triaging skin lesions referred to the urgent suspected skin cancer pathway: early value assessment (new NICE guideline HTE24)

Cost-effectiveness analysis of 3D total-body photography for people at high risk of melanoma

Delphi panel for the development of diagnostic criteria for metastatic cutaneous Crohn disease: a consensus statement

Digital photography guide for dermatologists with special considerations for diverse populations

Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of oral DFD-29, a low-dose formulation of minocycline, in rosacea: two phase 3 randomized clinical trials

Global applicability of a risk prediction tool for sentinel node positivity in patients with primary cutaneous melanoma

Human papillomavirus vaccination and actinic keratosis burden: the VAXAK randomized clinical trial

Investigating the genetic basis of the influence of adiposity on psoriasis: a cross-sectional study in a large United Kingdom population-based biobank

Mohs surgery vs wide local excision in primary high-stage cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Risk factor number and recurrence, metastasis, and disease-related death in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Risk of major adverse cardiovascular events following nicotinamide exposure

Risk prediction models for sentinel node positivity in melanoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Spesolimab for treating generalised pustular psoriasis flares (new NICE guideline TA1070)

Standard dermatoscope images vs an autonomous total body photography and dermoscopic imaging device

Suspected cancer: recognition and referral (updated NICE guideline NG12)

Systemic therapies for psoriatic disease and serious infections in older adults

Topical antimicrobial dressings for locally infected leg ulcers: late-stage assessment (new NICE guideline HTE27)

Sources

JAMA Dermatology (May-Jun); Journal of Investigative Dermatology (May); NICE website (May-Jun)

June 2025

ACKR3 in skin homeostasis, an overlooked player in the CXCR4/CXCL12 axis

#Acne: a thematic qualitative analysis of acne content on TikTok

Acne relapse and isotretinoin retrial in patients with acne

Alopecia areata–specific patient-reported outcome measures: a systematic review

Cell therapy and the skin: great potential but in need of optimization

Combination of baricitinib and phototherapy in adults with active vitiligo: a randomized clinical trial

Current insights on lipidomics in dermatology: a systematic review

Effectiveness of adalimumab biosimilars and originator for psoriasis

Emerging techniques in spatial multiomics: fundamental principles and applications to dermatology

A guide to screening for autoimmune diseases in patients with vulvar lichen sclerosus

Immune checkpoint inhibitors in field cancerization and keratinocyte cancer prevention

Missed diagnoses, missed opportunities: closing the gap in skin cancer for patients of color

Optimizing pemphigus management with rituximab and short-term relapse predictors

Paediatric hypotrichosis: a clinical and algorithmic approach to diagnosis

Prevention of post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation in skin of colour: a systematic review

Psoriatic arthritis: a comprehensive review for the dermatology

Recreational use of nitrous oxide as a source of frostbite injuries to the skin: a review of the literature and a case report

Risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis survivors

Skin changes of the female breast: a guide to assessment and management

Systematic review of rare major adverse cardiovascular events associated with the treatment of acne with isotretinoin

Topical steroid withdrawal: uncovering neuroinflammatory mechanisms

Sources

Australian Journal of Dermatology (May); Australian Journal of General Practice (May); Dermatology Times (May); European Burn Journal (Mar); JAMA Dermatology (Apr); Journal of Investigative Dermatology, The (May); Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (May)

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