Br J Dermatol
January 2025
Background: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease, characterized by eczematous skin lesions and pruritus. There is an unmet need for effective first-line systemic therapies with good safety profiles, particularly oral medications. Orismilast is a novel first-in-class oral phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) B/D inhibitor under investigation for the treatment of moderate-to-severe AD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Regional lymph node (LN) status is a key prognostic factor in oesophageal cancer (OeC). Tumour-derived antigens can activate immune reactions in LNs, potentially reflecting the host's anti-tumour immune response. It remains unclear whether this response is homogeneous across all tumour negative LNs (LNneg) within individual OeC patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: E-cigarette use in adolescents is increasing and the addictive potential of these devices is well recognised. Most health authorities have no E-cigarette cessation programmes. We reviewed randomised control trials evaluating prevention strategies for adolescent E-cigarette use and identified any successful components.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedical progress is reflected in the advance from broad clinical syndromes to mechanistically coherent diagnoses. By this metric, research in sepsis is far behind other areas of medicine-the word itself conflates multiple different disease mechanisms, whilst excluding noninfectious syndromes (e.g.
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