INTRODUCTION Chronic relapsing conditions are the most frustrating problems in day-to-day practice. In dermatological practice there are many such types of conditions which are resistant to routine therapeutic measures. Sometimes these measures may give rise to short-term remission but relapses are quite frequent. Quite often the modern drugs and antibiotics have a deleterious effect on the ski...

Disclosure: Thomas Bieber has received sponsorship from La Roche-Posay, Galderma, Bioderma, Novartis, Regeneron, Pfizer, Celgene, Anacor, and Chugai. Brigitte Dréno has received sponsorship from Galderma, Meda, La Roche-Posay, Fabre, Bioderma, GSK, Roche, and BMS. Sophie Seité is an employee of La Roche-Posay Dermatological Laboratories (Asnières, France). Acknowledgements: Writing assistance w...

Psychiatric morbidity is frequent in patients with psoriasis. We compared the effectiveness of dermatological vs. interdisciplinary dermatological and psychiatric care for psoriasis. Adults with moderate-to-severe psoriasis were randomly allocated to dermatological (n = 24) or interdisciplinary care (n = 23) and treated accordingly. Primary endpoint was the mean change in Dermatology Life Quali...

Background: Mucocutaneous manifestations may occur inevery stage of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.Some of them may be the first presentations. In this study, weevaluated the prevalence of dermatologic manifestations as thefirst presentations of HIV/AIDS in 25 Iranian patients.Method: In a cross sectional study, we evaluated 25 new casesof HIV infection whose HIV infections were d...

The main objective of this review article is to increase the awareness regarding Vihara (Ayurvedic lifestyle) in the prevention and management of dermatological disorders and to discuss its impact on physical, mental as well as social health of an individual. The authentic subject material has been reviewed from Ayurveda and modern medical literature. Concerned articles were reviewed from diffe...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of skin diseases in aged nursing home residents and to explore possible associations with demographic and medical characteristics. DESIGN Descriptive multicentre prevalence study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The study was conducted in a random sample of ten institutional long-term care facilities in the federal state of Berlin, Ger...

After the leprosy control programme in Shandong Province, China, had declared elimination in 1994, it was no longer cost effective to rely on rapid surveys, population surveys and contact tracing for case detection, and since then most new cases have been diagnosed by the dermatological services. The dermatological services will continue to play an important role in diagnosis of the few inciden...

The most emerging needs of the modern metal cutting operation are to increase the material removal rate with better surface finish and high machining accuracy. These objectives can be achieved by reducing cutting temperature in the cutting zone. In metal cutting process, high cutting temperature and its detrimental effects are generally reduced by proper selection of process parameters, proper ...