In a survey of pediatric patients with vitiligo, only 51.4% were offered narrowband ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) phototherapy, and 45.1% received this treatment before the age of 18 years. The main barriers ...

New Orleans, LA – A randomized, placebo-controlled pilot study led by Frank Lau, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At week 24, the ritlecitinib plus nbUVB group saw a higher facial vitiligo severity change from baseline vs. the ...

In a phase 2 study, adding narrow-band UVB phototherapy (NB-UVB) resulted in meaningful repigmentation through week 48 without new safety concerns in patients with nonsegmental vitiligo who did not ...

A 12-month real-world cohort (n=500) showed statistically significant VASI reductions across all treatments, with NB-UVB and JAK inhibitor monotherapies outperforming TCS/TCI alone. Combination ...

Phototherapy is the oldest form of psoriasis therapy and is still likely the most commonly used. From prescribing exposure to various wavelengths of ultraviolet light, to applying salts and tars at ...

Credit: Getty Images The Vitiligo Task Force developed expert-based recommendations for the treatment of vitiligo, worldwide. The International Vitiligo Task Force has issued up-to-date evidence-based ...

Psoriasis: When the ‘usual suspect’ therapy works Topical corticosteroids and ultraviolet therapies are still proving to be strong competitors in psoriasis treatment. Ms. S, aged 37 years, presented ...

A retrospective study investigated skin cancer risk in a large cohort of patients treated with ultraviolet light therapy between May 1977 and November 2018. Patients were treated with narrowband UVB ...