"Parents kept saying that 'We left the EpiPen in the car, [so] we threw it away, we were scared if it got hot.' So we said OK, well, let's look at the car temperature." -- Richard Lowenthal, president and CEO of ARS Pharmaceuticals, on testing intranasal epinephrine spray ARS-1 (also known as neffy) under extreme temperatures.
"This is really unusual from a public health perspective for an intervention that is so new." -- Landon Myer, MD, of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, discussing how quickly the use of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted infections has made an impact.
"If you have to have psoriasis, today is a much better time to have it." -- Amit Garg, MD, of the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in New York, on a shift towards more personalized psoriasis treatments.
"It makes sense that a stressor of any particular type would impact [the follicular] phase of the cycle." -- Pamela Berens, MD, of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, on the effects of the COVID-19 vaccine on menstrual cycles.
"I don't know where this obsession with exfoliation came from." -- Raman Madan, MD, of Northwell Health in New York, on the TikTok trend.
"We just have to be careful that it doesn't become a drug that has its usefulness curtailed because there are people who are having so many bad reactions." -- Robert Freedman, MD, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, calling for more patient safety guardrails for ketamine.
"Unsightly plaques and itching in awkward places like the groin and buttocks can make daily life miserable." -- Nicholas Brownstone, MD, of Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, on comorbid conditions in psoriasis.
"It is a fundamental issue with the benzoyl peroxide formulations themselves." -- David Light, president of Valisure in New Haven, Connecticut, discussing benzene in commonly used acne treatments.
"It's important for clinicians to be aware that potentially blood-based [HIV] transmission may occur in novel non-hospital settings." -- Aaron Siegler, PhD, MHS, of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, discussing five cases of HIV infection from spa "vampire facials."