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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids who spend their earliest years in day care may be at higher risk of eczema than kids cared for at home, according to a new study from Germany. Eczema is a collective term for different skin conditions characterized by a scaly, itchy, reddish rash. From 10 percent to 20 percent of infants and children experience ...

The hundreds of patients who flock to Mohammad Sherzad's homeopathic clinic in northern Afghanistan are greeted with a glass case of snakes and a covered glass dish of scorpions. For decades, Sherzad has been extracting poison from snakes and scorpions, mixing it with natural herbs and using ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A journal editor has scrubbed a line supporting the use of a L'Oreal-Nestle tanning pill from the conclusion of a company-sponsored study. The edits come days after a Reuters Health story -- http://link.reuters.com/wuv52n -- about serious shortcomings in the report. Dr. Tanya Bleiker, editor of the British Journal of Dermatology, which published ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Science doesn't just help to invent new products, it can push existing ones. Look no further than the beauty industry. It does lots of testing and flaunts products with scientific terms like microbeads, enzymes and rejuvenating serums. But what are the data behind them? And what if the company selling the product did the tests ...

Red in the face over a new tax that is part of the federal health care bill, about 150 tanning salon owners, workers and customers protested at the Capitol on Thursday, the day the tax went into effect. Some workers said their bosses had already ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with the skin condition atopic dermatitis may be at greater risk of getting cancer than those without it, new research hints. But it's unclear whether this increased risk is related to the medication patients take for the condition, or the condition itself, the researchers emphasize. Atopic dermatitis is a type of eczema, or skin ...

Arizona Sen. John McCain is taking to Twitter to slam President Barack Obama, this time in an exchange with a star from MTV's hit reality series "Jersey Shore." In a preview for the show's next season, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi laments that she doesn't ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Laser therapy that delivers a concentrated beam of ultraviolet light may help ease a hard-to-treat form of eczema, a small study suggests. The study, published in the British Journal of Dermatology, compared the effects of laser therapy versus corticosteroid ointment in 13 patients with what is known as the prurigo form of atopic dermatitis. Atopic dermatitis ...

A clearer, more meaningful standard for sunscreen labels is coming soon to a lotion near you, but not in time for the summer beach season that kicks off this Memorial Day weekend. The Food and Drug Administration is working to finish new labeling rules that have been years ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children given antibiotics or the pain reliever paracetamol in infancy may be at increased risk of developing eczema in later childhood, a new study from Spain hints. But the findings don't mean that parents should avoid using paracetamol -- known in the US as acetaminophen (Tylenol) -- because it's still unclear whether the increased risk is ...