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Article: With topical steroids for AD, follow age-specific indications.(Clinical Rounds)(atopic dermatitis)
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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MAUI, HAWAII -- A thorough familiarity with the age-specific indications for topical steroids in children with atopic dermatitis has become essential in the aftermath of the Food and Drug Administration's black box warning on topical calcineurin inhibitors, speakers said at the annual Hawaii Dermatology seminar sponsored by Skin Disease Education Foundation.
Although most atopic dermatitis (AD) experts believe that the black box warning is unwarranted, physicians leery of medicolegal exposure are voting with their prescription pads. Prescriptions for tacrolimus (Protopic) by dermatologists were down by nearly half in the first year after the black box warning was ...