All Dermatologicals

Medicines whose main purpose is to treat the skin, hair and nails, grouped together as Group D of the WHO Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification. The group covers products applied to the skin such as antiseptic creams, burn and wound preparations, antifungals, antipsoriatics, emollients and anti-itch products, together with a few medicines taken by mouth for skin disease, including the retinoids used against severe acne. Belongs here: drugs and cell therapies whose recorded use is a skin condition, a wound or a cosmetic skin indication. Does not belong here: antibiotics given for infections of the whole body, which sit under Antiinfective Agents for Systemic Use, and cancer drugs, which sit under Antineoplastic and Immunomodulating Agents even when the cancer is in the skin.