September 1, 2012, Vol 148, No. 9, Pages 984-1106

Azfar and coauthors assessed the risk of incident diabetes mellitus (DM) in patients with psoriasis and evaluated DM treatment patterns among patients with psoriasis and incident DM.

To determine if watching a children’s program on a portable video player reduces preprocedural anxiety levels in preschool children, Tey and colleagues performed a nonblinded before-after trial in 35 consecutive patients who underwent cryotherapy for cutaneous viral warts and compared anxiety scale scores between children treated before vs after the intervention was implemented.

Pawlak and coauthors compiled current legislation of indoor tanning throughout the world and compared them with existing legislation found in 2003.

Early detection of melanoma would improve the poor prognosis for this disease. Liebman et al included dermoscopy in a curriculum to teach performance of skin cancer examinations and tested whether the ability of second-year medical students to diagnose melanoma improved.

To evaluate differences in the initial prognosis of patients with cutaneous melanoma managed by teledermatology (TD) vs by other non-TD referral systems, Ferrándiz and colleagues performed a descriptive and longitudinal study of a store-and-forward TD system aimed at the triage of patients with suspicious pigmented lesions.