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Join host Supriya Muppala and dive sk(in depth) into the latest dermatology research across medical, pediatric, integrative, and global dermatology with 8 new articles and a Dermoscopy Question of the Week!

Also, please consider adding your voice to protect access to skin cancer care at ⁠⁠SaveSkinCancerCare.org⁠⁠.

This week’s research highlights include:

• Evaluating the performance of melanoma risk prediction models

• Dupilumab may improve linear growth and bone formation biomarkers in children with severe atopic dermatitis

• Social media influences acne treatment decisions among young people, while parents shape access to professional care

• EGFR signaling influences wound healing and progressive scarring in recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa

• Recognizing atypical eschars in pediatric scrub typhus may support earlier diagnosis

• Innovations: Device-free ear acupressure improves rosacea symptoms when added to standard treatment

• A cica-containing moisturizer improves redness and hydration in patients with rosacea

• Climate change and its impact on global skin disease burden, health equity, and access to dermatologic care

• DQOW: Color me surprised! Can you identify this blue-gray lesion?

You can find full links to the articles on our website: SkinDepth

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Join host Karla Mandima and dive sk(in depth) into the latest dermatology research across medical, cosmetic, pediatric, and procedural dermatology with 7 new articles!

This week’s highlights include:

• Can Telehealth Improve Sun Safety for Children at High Risk of Melanoma?

• AI-assisted dermoscopy sharpens resident detection of lentigo maligna on challenging sun-damaged facial skin.

• Animated films frame male-pattern baldness as wise and authoritative, but portray alopecia in women and children as frightening or comedic.

• Dermpath: diagnostic utility of SATB2 and TRAP in basal cell carcinosarcoma.

• Small changes in the operating room setup may help surgeons protect their eyes without compromising visualization.

• Combination laser light and topical serum therapy improves hair density in small cohort.

• Differences in atopic dermatitis comorbidity and treatment patterns by race.

You can find full links to the articles on our website: ⁠⁠https://www.skindepthderm.com/October-13-2026.html⁠⁠

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Join host Raven Lirio and dive sk(in depth) into the dermatology research across medical, cosmetic, pediatric, and procedural dermatology with 8 new articles!

This week’s highlights include:

• Ruxolitinib: a promising treatment for cutaneous lichen planus

• Biologic safety in pregnant patients With psoriasis

• Hidradenitis suppurativa nearly doubles the risk of heart failure and death

• IgG accumulates in the dermis with age and drives skin inflammation and collagen loss.

• Active intervention for infantile hemangiomas of the ear and periauricular region 

• AI-Assisted LT-OTC may help detect basal cell carcinoma before it becomes clinically visible, offering a glimpse into the future of non-invasive skin cancer screening.

• A Norway spruce resin cream showed antibacterial and anti-inflammatory activity 

• A global study evaluates systemic treatments for children with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis by skin color

You can find full links to the articles on our website: ⁠https://www.skindepthderm.com/september-30-2026.html⁠

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Join host Supriya Muppala and dive sk(in depth) into the latest research across medical, pediatric, procedural, cosmetic, and skin of color dermatology - with seven new studies and a Dermoscopy Question of the Week!

This week’s highlights include:

• Inflammatory bowel disease and IL-17 inhibitors in hidradenitis suppurativa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Effectiveness and safety of tofacitinib as adjunctive therapy for DRESS: a real-world study
• Vibration, pressure, and cryoanalgesia to minimize acral injection pain
• Primary cutaneous follicular helper T-cell lymphoma: a clinicopathological study of six cases and review of the literature
• Quality of information in dermatologic surgery referrals: a prospective observational cohort study
• Efficacy and side effects of green tea extract on facial skin aging: a systematic review
• Molecular differences in advanced melanoma among patients of color
• Dermoscopy Question of the Week featuring a new ‘target’ for your dermoscopy skills…

You can find full links to the articles on our website: https://www.skindepthderm.com/september-16-2026.html

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Join host Raven Lirio and dive sk(in depth) into the latest dermatology research across medical, cosmetic, pediatric, and procedural dermatology with 8 new articles!

This week’s highlights include:

• A promising new option for cutaneous dermatomyositis 

• Clinical features and outcomes of nail unit squamous cell carcinoma

• Preterm birth is linked to less severe AD and a distinct allergic comorbidity profile.

• IL-17 targets different cells and triggers different downstream gene expression changes in HS and psoriasis.

• Pediatric dermatology patients initiating immunomodulatory therapy lack serologic immunity against Hepatitis B Virus. 

• Access to dermatologic care in low-income countries.

• Golden Wanhong Ointment dressings associated with reduced wound size and pain, lower inflammatory markers, and a remodeled wound microbiome.

• Skin immune-mediated inflammatory diseases impose a heavy occupational burden.

You can find full links to the articles on our website: ⁠https://www.skindepthderm.com/september-2-2026.html⁠

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Join host Karla Mandima and dive sk(in depth) into the latest dermatology research across medical, cosmetic, pediatric, and procedural dermatology with 8 new articles!

This week’s highlights include:

• Which HS biologic delivers the most value? Adalimumab leads the efficiency frontier.

• Topical corticosteroids show similar outcomes as systemic steroids in hospitalized DRESS patients.

• Willingness to pay for skin cancer screening remains higher for dermatologist involvement than for AI-based assessment.

• Infantile atopic dermatitis is linked to higher rates of mother-to-infant bonding disorder.

• IDH1-mutated melanomas presented with advanced disease and high-risk clinicopathologic features.

• Perioperative liposomal bupivacaine is well tolerated in dermatologic surgery.

• Initial evidence for TCA as a stand-alone alone or adjunct treatment for atrophic acne scars.

• Younger age associated with greater quality-of-life burden from chemotherapy-induced alopecia.

You can find full links to the articles on our website: https://www.skindepthderm.com/august-19-2026.html⁠ 

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Join host Supriya Muppala and dive sk(in depth) into the latest dermatology research across medical, cosmetic, pediatric, and procedural dermatology with 8 new articles!

This week’s highlights include:

• Prevalence and associated factors of intentional outdoor tanning among US adults⁠
• Low-dose isotretinoin plus fish oil for moderate-to-severe acne⁠
• Serious infection risk with systemic treatments for psoriasis: a cohort study from the British Association of Dermatologists Biologics and Immunomodulators Register (BADBIR)⁠
• ⁠Expansion of pathogens and restoration of human skin microbiome in CD4 T-cell lymphopenia⁠
• ⁠Burden of neonatal skin and subcutaneous diseases in low-income countries⁠
• Text messaging for cardiovascular risk prevention in psoriasis⁠
• Jaungo-based herbal complex regulates psoriasis-associated macrophage–keratinocyte inflammatory axis⁠
• ⁠The dermatologic burden of flooding: a systematic review of epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and management in a warming world⁠

You can find full links to the articles on our website: ⁠https://www.skindepthderm.com/august-5-2026.html⁠

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Join host Karla Mandima and dive sk(in depth) into the latest dermatology research across medical, cosmetic, pediatric, and procedural dermatology with 8 new articles!

This week’s highlights include:

• Does tuberculosis risk differ across systemic dermatology therapies?

• Elevated skin cancer risk among female patients with systemic sclerosis and organ transplantation.

• Oral icotrokinra sustains high rates of clear skin and symptom relief through one year, with comparable safety to placebo.

• Most children with psoriasis maintained remission after stopping systemic therapy.

• Atypical fibroxanthomas can be differentiated from melanoma by positive CD10 and negative PRAME expression.

• Simple changes in dermatologic surgery can reduce environmental waste while maintaining patient safety.

• Fractionated laser therapy is effective at decreasing melasma-related skin pigmentation in patients with Fitzpatrick skin type III-IV.

• Skin tone bias in AI-generated images of autoimmune skin disease.

You can find full links to the articles on our website: ⁠⁠https://www.skindepthderm.com/july-22-2026.html⁠⁠

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Join host Raven Lirio and dive sk(in depth) into the latest dermatology research across medical, cosmetic, pediatric, and procedural dermatology with 8 new articles!

This week’s highlights include:

• GLP-1RA use in HS patients was linked to fewer deaths, cardiac events, and systemic complications.

• Early-onset androgenetic alopecia as a marker of diabetes risk

• Artificial intelligence may not be prepared to diagnose malignant lesions.

• Biological pathways driving topical steroid withdrawal inform therapeutic approaches with mitochondrial complex I inhibitors.

• Clinical burden of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa inversa is complicated by multisystemic mucosal involvement. 

• A comparison of a team-based virtual health care model vs. in-person visits for patients with atopic dermatitis.

• A triterpenoid from Kochia scoparia reduced inflammation and restored skin barrier proteins in preclinical models of atopic dermatitis.

• Skin bleaching has escalated into a global public health crisis, causing severe multisystemic complications.

You can find full links to the articles on our website: ⁠⁠

https://www.skindepthderm.com/july-8-2026.html⁠⁠ 

This is a late posting of our July 8th newsletter. For questions, comments or future episode suggestions, please email us at [email protected].

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Join host Supriya Muppala and dive sk(in depth) into the latest dermatology research across medical, cosmetic, pediatric, and procedural dermatology with 8 new articles!

This week’s highlights include:

• Adult hypopigmented mycosis fungoides and its long-term clinical outcomes⁠
• ⁠Immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated autoimmune bullous disease⁠
• ⁠Microbiota-fibroblast crosstalk in skin barrier dysfunction and fibrosis⁠
• Topical JAK inhibitors for pediatric atopic dermatitis⁠
• ⁠Dermoscopic and confocal criteria for basal cell carcinoma subtypes⁠
• ⁠Rhytidectomy outcomes in patients with prior facial injectables⁠
• ⁠Bellafill as a regenerative biomaterial⁠
• Plus, a Student Spotlight on Chester Tyson, a medical student from the University of North Carolina and his ⁠review on species-specific antifungal therapy for pediatric tinea capitis

You can find full links to the articles on our website: https://www.skindepthderm.com/june-24-2026.html⁠⁠

We’re also introducing Beyond the Abstract, a new segment going behind the scenes of dermatology research, and wrapping up with a Dermoscopy Question of the Week.

All studies discussed are linked above. For questions, comments or future episode suggestions, please email us at [email protected].

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