August 27th, 2008, by Digital Davo | natural remedies, topicals
Vitamins A,C, E & B3 are found naturally in the skin and have been shown to have potent anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. They can be depleted by sunlight, smoking, pollution and other free radical stress. The number of products containing …
June 19th, 2008, by Digital Davo | acne treatments, in the news, topicals
OK this story is getting so much coverage in the online press that I thought I should cover it here too. Allergan is buying the topical dapsone product called Aczone for $150m. From: Allergan Announces Agreement to Acquire Aczone(R) Gel 5% …
May 27th, 2008, by Digital Davo | macrolides, topicals
This paper details a somewhat exotic combination therapy: oral azithromycin and topical tacrolimus. It offers an alternative to the more common doxycycline + metrogel combination. The authors mention that this is not a first line therapy; "a combination of oral azithromycin and …
May 8th, 2008, by Digital Davo | seborrheic dermatitis, topicals
This recently published paper investigates the effectiveness of a `novel steroid-free cream containing multiple active ingredients’, called Sebclair to treat facial seborrheic dermatitis.
This product sounds quite interesting for rosacea and rosacea/SD sufferers. Little information about Sebclair is currently available on the internet.
Seblair (MAS064D) is approved …
April 26th, 2008, by Digital Davo | clinical trials, topicals
A seemingly new topical treatment for rosacea is being trialled by Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences. The product is being evaluated firstly for the number of inflammatory lesions and global severity, and secondly for redness. This, along with the trial lasting 12 weeks, and the large size of the trial leads me to guess that IDP-115 is a metronidazole or azelaic acid variant.
Google hasn’t found any clues …
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