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Chronic urticaria and the mast cell: dermatology meets allergy
Chronic urticaria lands in dermatology, allergy and primary care, often all three. A plain overview of the disease, the mast cell behind it and how each specialty approaches it.
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PAs and NPs in dermatology: teaching, not just attending
Physician assistants and nurse practitioners carry a growing share of dermatology care. Their education should treat them as teachers and colleagues, not an audience to fill seats.
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Hidradenitis suppurativa and the long road to diagnosis
HS patients often wait years for a name for their disease. Most of that time is spent in front of clinicians who are not dermatologists. Here is where recognition can start sooner.
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Aesthetic medicine is medicine
Every aesthetic treatment is a medical procedure on a patient with a medical history. Here is why DermIQ teaches aesthetics inside a medical dermatology meeting.
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Atopic dermatitis is a whole-team condition
Dermatology, allergy and primary care each see part of atopic dermatitis. The patient lives with all of it. Here is where the team view matters and where it breaks.
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Know when to treat. Know when to refer.
A practical frame for primary care and APPs: what makes a dermatology referral work, what to send with it, which findings can't wait, and how to share care after.
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The DermIQ Summit 2026 in review
Three days at the Omni Fort Lauderdale with 200+ clinicians who touch skin. Here is what was taught, what people took home, and where DermIQ goes next.
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These conditions do not respect specialty boundaries, and our education shouldn't either.Naiem T. Issa, MD, PhD, FAAD · President and Chair, DermIQ
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