The Limbic

Dermatologists have a role in helping obese patients

Given the weight of evidence that obesity impacts patients with skin diseases such as psoriasis, dermatologists need to find a way to help support their patients. Melbourne dermatologist Dr Josephine Yeatman told the ACD ASM that many clinicians feel uncomfortable raising...

Given the weight of evidence that obesity impacts patients with skin diseases such as psoriasis, dermatologists need to find a...

Skin cancers

Vigilance required in transplant patients

Dermatologists have to be more proactive than usual in helping to manage the risk of skin cancer in the 18,000-20,000 living solid organ transplant recipients in Australia. Professor Alvin Chong, head of transplant dermatology at the Skin and Cancer Foundation, told...

Dermatologists have to be more proactive than usual in helping to manage the risk of skin cancer in the 18,000-20,000...

Hair & nails

Growing numbers affected by frontal fibrosing alopecia

The jury is still out on the cause of frontal fibrosing alopecia but the increasing worldwide incidence over the last 20 years suggests it is a new disease involving an environmental factor. Dermatologist and president of the Institute of Trichologists in...

The jury is still out on the cause of frontal fibrosing alopecia but the increasing worldwide incidence over the last...

ACD ASM 2019

Dermatologists have a role in helping obese patients

Vigilance required in transplant patients

Growing numbers affected by frontal fibrosing alopecia