Dermatology Experts & Viewpoints

Has iPLEDGE Been Successful? Now that the bugs have been ironed out, how successful has the iPLEDGE program been?
Ask the Expert, September 2008
CME/CE Psoriasis Is a Systemic Disease: An Expert Interview With Alan Menter, MD AAD Summer Meeting: Why is psoriasis undertreated and underrecognized as a systemic disease?
Expert Interview, September 2008
Throwing Out Your Medical Trash--Doing it Right! Medicine Matters from Sandra Fryhofer, MD Dr. Sandra Fryhofer offers tips on discarding unneeded medications and asks how you're getting rid of those unused drugs.
Commentary, September 2008
A Market for Compassion: Single-Payer Health Insurance Prajwal Ciryam, second-year MD/PhD student at Northwestern University and Co-Founding Member of Health Care for All Illinois, explains why an American single-payer system is right.
Commentary, September 2008
Hand Hygiene: How Can We Improve? Lisa Maragakis, MD, reviews in her videoblog the serious challenges of measuring and improving hand hygiene compliance in the healthcare setting.
Commentary, September 2008
Sun, Pigmentation, Genetic Variations, and the Risk for Skin Cancer The authors discuss important new papers reporting on the relationships of genetic markers to risk for skin cancer.
Commentary, August 2008
Why Should I Report an Adverse Drug Event? Individual clinicians can play a vital role in detecting potentially serious adverse drug events -- and the safety of our drug supply depends on them.
Expert Column, August 2008
When Your Patients and In-laws Ask Whether They Should Receive the Shingles Vaccine In his most recent videoblog, Paul Auwaerter, MD, discusses the shingles vaccine and its implications for inquiring patients, in-laws, and healthcare providers.
Commentary, August 2008
Retooling for an Aging America Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, President, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, discusses the impact of the "baby boomer" generation on medicine.
Commentary, August 2008
Topical Negative Pressure Wound Therapy -- Is it Justified? Commentary on a study of whether negative-pressure wound therapy is justified, published May 2008 in the British Journal of Surgery.
Commentary, August 2008

POLL

Under California legislation newly signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, health insurers will be required to cover routine HIV testing, which would encourage compliance with recommendations made by the CDC 2 years ago. Would such legislation in your state, and subsequent third-party coverage, lead to more testing for HIV in your practice setting?

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CME/CE Psoriasis Is a Systemic Disease: An Expert Interview With Alan Menter, MD AAD Summer Meeting: Why is psoriasis undertreated and underrecognized as a systemic disease?
Expert Interview, September 2008

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