Literature Lessons
By Ted Rosen, MD, FAAD, Editor-in-Chief Off-label Pearl Patients receiving epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors for the treatment of cancer are prone to develop severe acneiform eruptions. This adverse event may be prevented or lessened in severity by prophylactic administration of oral tetracycline derivatives at typical therapeutic doses. To read more: Yu Z, et al. […]
Tackling lice: Pick your poison
By Cheryl Guttman Krader; Reviewed by Natasha Mesinkovska, MD, PhD Most everyone would agree that thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a pretty lousy year. How “lousy” a year it has been with respect to the prevalence of pediculosis capitis (head lice infestation) is unknown. On the one hand, cases of head lice […]