Pandemic politics: Exploring the intersection of state political affiliation and public universities' COVID-19 policies and messaging.

As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread within the United States, the challenge of responding to a large-scale health crisis was compounded as the federal government struggled to deliver a unified response. Decision-making powers for pandemic protocols were passed to individual states, whose responses were heavily influenced by their administrations' partisan political leanings. This study explores differences in the transparency of COVID-19 information on university websites and the restrictiveness of the measures they implemented by examining university messaging in all-Republican and all-Democrat controlled states.

Isotretinoin in the treatment of granuloma annulare.

Objective: To assess the utility and safety of isotretinoin in the treatment of granuloma annulare (GA).

Data Sources: Searches of MEDLINE (1966-January 2003), EMBASE (1989-January 2003), International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (1970-2002), and Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (1985-2002) were conducted. Key terms included granuloma annulare, isotretinoin, retinoids, and antioxidants.