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Dermatology Patients Experience Better Care Via Telehealth
Dermatology patients who undergo telehealth consultations generally experience positive results, according to a study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Archives of Dermatology.
For the study, medical records were examined for roughly 1,500 patients who were seen from 2003 to 2005 at the University of California, Davis. Diagnoses and treatment plans were compared between referring physicians and teledermatologists.
Overall, nearly 70% of diagnoses from referring physicians were changed after the live interactive teledermatology consultation. As a result, disease management was changed for nearly 98% of patients.
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Source: FierceHealthIT
Personalized Care Key as Tirzepatide Use Expands Rapidly
April 15th 2025Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.
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FDA Greenlights Dupilumab for Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria, Marking First Approval in a Decade
April 18th 2025Marking the first approval in over a decade for this challenging condition, the FDA has approved dupilumab (Dupixent) to treat chronic spontaneous urticaria in patients 12 years and older whose hives and itching remain uncontrolled by antihistamines.
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