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

Dermatology current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

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December 2025

Aging-associated mitochondrial decline accelerates skin aging and obesity

An assessment of current clinician- and patient-reported outcome measures for acne scarring and dyspigmentation: a scoping review

Biopharmaceutical switching in psoriasis treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Blood transcriptome signature as indicator and predictor for efficacy of abrocitinib in treatment of atopic dermatitis

Characteristics and therapeutic strategies for diffuse cutaneous mastocytosis

Climate conditions, weather changes, and air pollutants and atopic dermatitis: a meta-analysis

Commercial sunbeds should be banned in the UK (BMJ)

Comprehensive profiling of genetic and nongenetic factors that influence skin traits in Asian women from 4 countries

Defining on-treatment remission in plaque psoriasis: a consensus statement from the National Psoriasis Foundation

Dermatological manifestation of HIV infection: systematic review and meta-analysis

Differentiating the role of inflammation in hidradenitis suppurativa from that in other inflammatory skin diseases

Efficacy and safety of medical interventions for moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa: a living systematic review and network meta-analysis

Emollients to prevent pediatric eczema: a randomized clinical trial

Guselkumab for moderate to severe psoriasis across all skin tones: cohort A of the VISIBLE randomized clinical trial

Guselkumab for moderate to severe scalp psoriasis across all skin tones: cohort B of the VISIBLE randomized clinical trial

Local recurrence and survival in patients with melanoma in situ

Melanoma update: is a cure now in sight?

Once-daily oral icotrokinra versus placebo and once-daily oral deucravacitinib in participants with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis (ICONIC-ADVANCE 1 & 2): two phase 3, randomised, placebo-controlled and active-comparator-controlled trials

Prevalence of comorbidities among pediatric patients with hidradenitis suppurativa: a meta-analysis

Prevalence of hidradenitis suppurativa: a meta-analysis of global hidradenitis suppurativa atlas studies

Progress on multiomics research on acne vulgaris: a literature review

Psoriasis risk in patients with atopic dermatitis treated with dupilumab

Reliability of the ichthyosis scoring system in individuals with skin of color

Subclinical synovitis among patients with psoriasis without musculoskeletal involvement: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sources

BMC Infectious Diseases (Oct); BMJ (Oct); Internal Medicine Journal (Aug); JAMA Dermatology (Aug-Oct); Journal of Investigative Dermatology (Oct); Lancet (Sep)

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)

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