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This case report diagnosed variegate porphyria in a 33-year-old woman based on significant laboratory abnormalities, but with clinical features resembling porphyria cutanea tarda.

This study found that rapidly administered intravenous cimetidine may cause a significant drop in blood pressure in critically ill patients, whereas ranitidine does not appear to have the same effect.

This study found no significant difference in the seroconversion rate of SARS-CoV2 IgG between patients with Immune Mediated Inflammatory diseases undergoing Targeted Immune-Modulating Therapies and those on conventional systemic treatment.

This study found that in young male rats, cortisone acetate inhibited body growth and caused alopecia, which vitamin B12 and aureomycin largely counteracted, especially when combined.

This review discusses the multiple severe side effects of cisplatin, carboplatin, and oxaliplatin in cancer treatment and reports no new clinical results; the authors emphasize the need for careful monitoring and supportive care to manage these effects.

This study found that the compound M50054 inhibits apoptosis by blocking caspase-3 activation and may improve chemotherapy-induced alopecia and hepatitis symptoms.

This study found that sodium valproate effectively stopped or reduced seizures in patients with various types of epilepsy, with best results in absence and myoclonic seizures, though it caused temporary hair loss in some cases.

This study found that albumin-bound paclitaxel combined with nedaplatin shows promise as neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, achieving a high complete response rate with manageable side effects.

This case report describes a 23-year-old male who developed leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and rash associated with lamotrigine treatment, emphasizing the importance for clinicians to monitor for serious side effects, especially early in treatment.

This case report describes a 64-year-old man with pulmonary nocardiosis, where erythema annulare centrifugum lesions possibly associated with co-trimoxazole resolved after discontinuation of the medication.

This review discusses the use of topical immunotherapy for severe alopecia areata and resistant viral warts, highlighting diphencyprone's advantages and the need for careful handling to avoid staff sensitisation; it reports no new clinical results.

This study observed early cardiac effects in young minipigs following high-dose doxorubicin chemotherapy, with a decrease in heart function and changes in cardiac MRI measurements compared to controls.

Valproic acid can cause hair loss, but information on hair color change is not detailed.

This study concludes that combining chemotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors is additive rather than synergistic in terms of adverse events for advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients.

There's a growing resistance to the antibiotic mupirocin in children's skin infections caused by MRSA in New York.

This study found that stilbamidine and hydroxystilbamidine can inhibit the release of specific enzymes from lysosomes and mitochondria in rabbit liver at certain concentrations, with effects similar to cortisol and chloroquine.

This review found that adding immune checkpoint inhibitors to cancer treatment regimens likely increases the incidence of specific drug-related skin toxicities in adult Asian patients, highlighting the need for careful monitoring and management strategies.

In this study, wounds treated with a combination of 0.02% Decamethoxine and Blastomunil showed enhanced healing and epithelization by the 14th day, leveraging the immunomodulatory and antimicrobial properties of the agents.

This research reports that arsenic trioxide achieved a complete remission rate of 87% in patients with relapsed acute promyelocytic leukemia, though its use involves manageable toxicities.

This study observed that vomiting was the most frequent side effect of sodium valproate in children under two years old, with anemia, hair loss, and appetite loss being less common.

In this study, a combination of irinotecan and cetuximab showed varied response rates in metastatic colorectal cancer patients, with manageable skin toxicity that improved quality of life when treated collaboratively by oncology and dermatology teams.

In this case study, gentian violet in diluted shampoo successfully alleviated symptoms of a Malassezia pachydermatis infection in a cat initially unresponsive to conventional treatments.

This study highlights the potential of a ketoconazole antifungal hair spray as an innovative and effective topical method for treating tinea capitis, offering benefits such as easy application, improved drug penetration, and reduced systemic exposure compared to conventional treatments.

Laser treatment for skin conditions VEN and ILVEN is effective and liked by patients.

This case study of a patient with dissecting cellulitis of the scalp found that multiple medications, including isotretinoin, achieved only modest improvement, and symptoms returned after treatments were stopped.

This review discusses managing common and notable adverse events associated with the antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan in patients with HER2-positive unresectable/metastatic breast cancer and reports no new clinical results.

This Phase II study found that BAY 43-9006, given at 400 mg orally twice daily, led to stable disease in 30% and tumor reduction in 40% of renal cell carcinoma patients.

Acyclovir can prevent rejection of skin grafts in herpes-related lip leucoderma.

The BAYONET trial is a phase II study designed to assess the efficacy and safety of combining encorafenib, binimetinib, and cetuximab for patients with BRAF V600E-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer that is resistant to encorafenib plus cetuximab; results are not yet reported.