When my terminally ill daughter finally dies, I want to remember in the most fashionable way imaginable: a human leather jacket covered in glitter and rhinestones.
Conventional wisdom (and that horrific sun exposure truck driver meme) has long held that you need to stay out of the sun or use a high SPF to keep your skin healthy and avoid jacking up your skin cancer risk. But a surprisingly large number of people either ignore the advice, or remain...
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Lately, everywhere I go seems to be plastered in advertising for 'The Mindy Project'. Mindy Kaling rocks, so I'm pretty happy about this on the whole. But when one of the ads popped up in the middle of my Mindy-covered New York magazine, I was gobsmacked: Why was her skin a completely different...
Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system develops antibodies to two of its own proteins, the desmogleins DSG1 and DSG3 that help maintain the integrity of the skin. The immune attack causes painful blisters on the skin and mucus membranes that can lead...
Genetic investigation of a Malaysian tribe may tell scientists why East Asians have light skin but lower skin cancer rates than Europeans, according to a team of international researchers. Understanding the differences could lead to a better way to protect people from skin cancer. While the...
Surgical facelifts are invasive, painful, and often leave patients looking a little...unusual, as if their skin is a few sizes too small. The Facelift Bungee*promises to give you all the same visage-tightening results--and, in so far as it appears to be supremely painful and makes the user look...
Whether from surgery or battle wounds, ugly scars can affect body and mind. Now a new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal offers a new strategy to reduce or eliminate scars on the skin. Specifically, scientists from NYU describe how agents that block receptors for adenosine (a...
In Cell Stem Cell, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine describe how human epidermal progenitor cells and stem cells control transcription factors to avoid premature differentiation, preserving their ability to produce new skin cells throughout life. The...
I would like to cosplay as Miki or another Vocaloid, but I guess you could say my skin color is stopping me. I feel like the red/other colors of the wigs will clash horribly with my skin. I'm Indian, as in from India, and I have relatively fair skin FOR AN INDIAN--I'm from the Northeast of the...
Cancer-causing chemicals found in some sunscreens don't mean you should avoid sunscreen altogether (or trust untested remedies like coconut oil). There are plenty of natural sunscreens on the market that protect against sun damage without using toxic ingredients. Here are 7 of the best. More...
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified an agent that in lab tests protected the skin and lungs from fibrosis, a process that can ultimately end in organ failure and even death because the damaged tissue becomes scarred and can no longer function properly...
An aspirin a day keeps skin cancer away? It might help. A large*new study from Denmark says*regular use of aspirin, ibuprofen or related painkillers—a class of medicines known as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs—could cut your risk of developing certain skin cancers, including...
A new study suggests that aspirin and other similar painkillers may help protect against skin cancer. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings indicate that skin cancer prevention may be added to the benefits of these commonly used...
Aspirin and other commonly used painkillers may help guard against skin cancer, according to a new study about to be published online in the journal CANCER, that was led by researchers from Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. Previous studies have already suggested that NSAIDs (nonsteroidal...