The FDA announced that two FDA advisory committees will meet in March to discuss proposed changes to the embattled program to minimize burden on patients, pharmacies, and prescribers."
There s some room for improvement in diagnosing pediatric hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), researchers suggested.
In an international cross-sectional analysis of 481 patients diagnosed with HS, the average age of diagnosis came about 2 years after the average age of disease onset (14.4 and 12.5 years, respectively), according to Irene Lara-Corrales, MD, of the University of Toronto, and colleagues.
Among adolescents, the inflammatory skin condition most often presented with a cyst or abscess, accounting for about half of the first signs and symptoms, they stated in
The second and third most common initial symptoms of the debilitating disorder were pain and tenderness (25%), followed by papules and pustules (24%).