Routine Decisions
Clarifies the practical tradeoffs around adding, pausing, combining, or simplifying skin-care steps without prescribing an individual routine.
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A Dermatology Journal's Essay on a Chinese Ink Painting Isn't a Study
The Journal of Investigative Dermatology's August 2026 issue carries a two-page Letters to the Editor essay, not a study, in which two dermatologists and an artist read Xu Beihong's 1930s ink painting Eight Horses as an argument for training clinicians to look closely; it cites no data for that claim.
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When an Itch Has No Rash Behind It
Itching with no visible rash has a documented but narrow link to cancer, strongest in Hodgkin lymphoma, where it can appear years before diagnosis yet doesn't track with tumor size. The biology behind it is still unresolved, and most unexplained itch traces back to something else entirely.
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The Stool Test Doctors Are Debating Before a New Biologic
A formal exchange in a major dermatology journal shows specialists still disagree about routinely testing for gut inflammation before starting bimekizumab for hidradenitis suppurativa, and the reply's byline mixes independent academics with employees of the drug's manufacturer.