Questions about a link between isotretinoin treatment of acne vulgaris and development or exacerbation of inflammatory bowel disease have been debated in the medical literature, and also in the lay press. Several lawsuits have been filed against pharmaceutical companies and individual prescribers. But investigators at the University of Manitoba found that isotretinoin use was no more common in patients with IBD than in the general population.
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