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Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2001;285:2439.

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After a half-century of trying everything from Accutane to zinc, dermatologists still don't know which acne treatments work best. The problem lies with the dearth of studies directly comparing treatments, said Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD, a Johns Hopkins pediatrician and an author of Management of Acne, a thorough review (available at http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/acnesum.htm) of the literature funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

After sorting through 250 studies of 150 acne drugs, the authors concluded that better research standards are needed. Lehmann said he will work with members of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Academy of Dermatology to create such standards.