Dr. Paul M. Wolf vividly remembers the day the woman came into the emergency room of the hospital where he was serving his residency. She had a severe rash that was getting progressively worse in front of his eyes. “Clearly, we didn’t have time to mess around,” says Wolf, an internist who has a solo practice in Austin. He thought there was a chance that it was Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS), an extremely serious and frequently fatal illness in which cell death causes separation of the epidermis from the dermis. Read more...