Dapsone is a chemotherapeutic agent primarily used in treating leprosy, Pneumocystis jiroveci (previously carinii) pneumonia, and malaria. It is also used as an adjuvant in the treatment of pemphigus and pemphigoid.

Patients suffering one of three chronic conditions reported improved communication with their primary care physician (PCP) after receiving advice and encouragement through an online intervention.

(CNN) — During his dermatology rotation as a medical student, a professor proclaimed to Dr. Paul Konowitz that there were two dermatologic problems you especially never wanted to develop. Konowitz can’t remember the name of the first one, but the…

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A group of New Mexicans is protesting changes by Presbyterian Health Plan that now deny them a drug they say was effective in fighting their rare disease.

The national health care debate continues on Capitol Hill, but that won’t stop Springfield medical leaders from injecting innovation into the local health care scene.

Many people with chronic fatigue syndrome are infected with a little known virus that may cause or at least contribute to their illness, researchers are reporting.

If you suspect your extra-cranky baby has an ear infection on a Saturday afternoon, but his doctor isn’t back in the office till Monday, a walk-in clinic–like the kind springing up in places such as retail pharmacy chains–can be a…

The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions — 80 percent or more, experts say — are really made by individuals,…

Bullous pemphigoid (BP), pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and pemphigus foliaceus (PF) are autoimmune bullous diseases characterized by the presence of tissue-bound and circulating autoantibodies directed against disease-specific target antigens of the skin. Although rare, these diseases run a chronic course and…