Contact allergy to lanolin: temporal changes in prevalence and association with atopic dermatitis.

Background: Lanolin has been tested as lanolin alcohols (30% pet.) in baseline patch test series since 1969, and this has shown clinically relevant allergic contact dermatitis cases.

Objectives: To investigate the temporal development of lanolin allergy (i.

[Suspected allergy to a local anaesthetic: how often is allergy proven?].

Objective: To determine the percentage of proven allergy for local anaesthetics (LA) in patients who were tested because of a clinical suspicion of LA allergy.

Design: Retrospective multicentre case series.

Method: All patients from two hospitals who were seen from 2004 through 2013 for a possible allergy to local anaesthetics.

Non-melanoma skin cancer in Australia.

Objectives: To report the burden and cost of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) treatments in Australia and to project estimates of numbers and costs to 2015.

Design And Setting: Retrospective study of data obtained from Medicare Australia for NMSC treated by excision, curettage, laser or cryotherapy between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2010, by year, sex, age group and state or territory.

Main Outcome Measures: Total number, total Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) benefit and total cost in Australian dollars of NMSC treatments.