Topic: Skin Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People drinking water naturally contaminated with high levels of arsenic may benefit from eating more radishes, sweet potatoes and other similar plants, a new study finds.Among residents of Bangladesh, a region highly contaminated with arsenic, those with ...
Allumera shows significant improvements in appearance of skin compared to light. The RevitAll study was designed to determine the ability of Allumera cream to improve the appearance of skin compared to illumination by light alone.. The company plans to bring Allumera to ...
More than 50 percent of women ages 20 to 29 still battle acne, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. But the location of acne and other skin problems can tell you what's causing the flare-ups--and point you and your derm toward ...
As the sun goes down young albino men, normally a persecuted minority here, head eagerly to a sandy roadside patch that serves as a training pitch for Tanzania's Albino United football club.In a country where scores of albinos have been gruesomely murdered ...
Pattern baldness affects approximately one-third of women and men and is usually permanent. It is typically seen as a receding hairline at the temples with bald spots at the crown of the head and can start at early as the late teens ...
Although oral piercings are popular with teenagers, Dr. Marcoux says, "Oral piercing is not totally benign. They occur in 2.5 percent of full-term babies, though the percentage in premature babies is higher, Dr. Marcoux says. Though infantile hemangiomas are usually autoinvolutive, ulceration ...
Over the past several years, however, Dr. Light has become wary of the decreasing insurance reimbursement he receives in his practice of medical dermatology. Dr. Light makes the decision to learn more about cosmetic procedures. At the in-service for this device, Dr. ...
As of January 2010, physicians lost one more category of income from the Medicare reimbursement table. Nearly 50 percent of doctors reported reducing the number of, or time they spent with, Medicare patients, while most planned to postpone the purchase of equipment, ...
Despite initial protests, dermatologists required to participate in maintenance of certification (MOC) programs generally view them as helpful tools for improving patient care, doctors say. However, even some MOC proponents question the effectiveness of the American Board of Dermatology (ABD) recertification test ...
Ronald L. Moy, M.D., has always cared about dermatology, but he never intended to join the specialty. He recalls how fellow dermatologist Marc D. Brown, M.D., of Rochester, N.Y., wrote a letter recommending Dr. Moy for professor, saying he thought Dr. Moy ...