Tag: skin-diseases

  • Climate change is shifting areas of skin disease concern

    Climate change is bringing certain skin diseases and other illnesses to regions where they were rarely seen before, according to a recent research review. Dermatologists should keep these changing patterns of skin diseases in mind when making diagnoses, say the authors, who analyzed specific disease shifts in North America. In the U.S., for example, the…

  • Climate change is shifting areas of skin disease concern

    Climate change is bringing certain skin diseases and other illnesses to regions where they were rarely seen before, according to a recent research review. Dermatologists should keep these changing patterns of skin diseases in mind when making diagnoses, say the authors, who analyzed specific disease shifts in North America. In the U.S., for example, the…

  • Residents Shelter in Place After Chemical Spill in Kansas

    Residents of Atchinson County, Kansas, were told to shelter in place this morning after a chemical spill in the area forced evacuations and sent several individuals to the hospital. The spill, which happened shortly after 8 a.m. local time, covers a 4-block radius near Main Street, according to officials from the Atchinson County Emergency Management…

  • Sanofi and Regeneron report positive skin disease trial

    French drugmaker Sanofi SA and U.S. partner Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said a one-year, late-stage study of dupilumab, a monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of skin diseases, had met its main goals. “These are the first long-term Phase 3 data that demonstrated dupilumab with topical corticosteroids was superior to topical corticosteroids alone, and provided sustained…

  • China issues corruption warning after training center visits

    China’s top graft buster followed up a series of inspections of elite sports training centers by reiterating its warning against corruption in the run-up to the Rio Olympics on Monday. The Beijing Sport University and the Olympic Training center were among departments visited by inspectors attached to the sports ministry, the ruling Communist Party’s Central…