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Save the date: Next WCI Meeting
13th World Congress on Itch, Heidelberg, Germany
October 2025
Further information will follow soon.
French association on pruritus
At the start of 2024, the creation of the "Association Française pour le Traitement et l'Etude du Prurit (AFTEP)" was announced.
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Solidarity with Ukraine
The International Forum for the Study of Itch (IFSI) expresses its sadness and refusal about the ongoing war in Ukraine. As a global society of clinicians and researchers we promote tolerance and mutual respect as universal values. IFSI expresses its sincere hope that dialogue and negotiations will rapidly lead to peace. IFSI declares its solidarity with the Ukrainian people. IFSI claims to stop this war immediately.

The IFSI board
Juntendo University, Tokyo
Report of the 5th Academic Symposium "Aiming to Overcome Intractable Itch" in Juntendo University
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Please note a current book publication. The first comprehensive review of common and different pathways and mechanisms of itch and pain.
Gil Yosipovitch, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Hjalte Andersen. Itch and Pain. Similarities, Interactions and Differences. Wolters Kluwer 2020
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SECURE-AD Registry update
Please note current information from the SECURE-AD Team

Dear colleague,
Thank you very much for your continued support of the SECURE-AD registry. To date we have collected data on 190 eczema cases with a confirmed or suspected COVID episode, which is excellent.
Please continue to enter your cases at this critical time – before the window of opportunity to gather this data has passed. We will include everyone who enters a case as a co-author under the SECURE-AD Study Group in resulting publications.
It would also be great if you could share this initiative via social media, tagging us @ad_secure (Twitter) and @secure.derm (Instagram) (links to follow us on Twitter and Instagram).

Many thanks for your contribution.

With kind regards,
The SECURE-AD Team
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The Journal Itch:
Itch, the official journal of the International Forum for the Study of Itch (IFSI)
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