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After a Danish study last week reported finding more breast cancer cases among women who use hormone-based birth control methods, many women were left wondering: How significant is the risk, and what are the alternatives? Click here to view full article. Credit: www.nytimes.com
The next time you’re tempted to use a tanning bed or frolic in the sun without protecting your skin, Judy Cloud wants you to remember her face. The Indianapolis, Indiana, resident is sharing the aftermath of her fourth surgery to remove skin cancer from her body. Cloud has had more than 30 spots taken off […]
Sweating is your body’s built-in air conditioning. When your core temperature rises on a sweltering day, before a stressful work presentation, or during a hard-charging gym session, your body releases water on the skin, where it evaporates and cools your entire system. But sweating can also be stinky and uncomfortable, and if you’re one of […]
It’s the perfect time to incorporate some small but important changes in how you take care of your body. The best place to start is your face and, specifically, not damaging it every morning. First, do not put that bar of body soap on your mug. Ever. “Soaps and cleansers today are on opposite sides of […]
Children whose mothers had a dog while they were pregnant were significantly less likely to develop atopic dermatitis, or eczema, as toddlers, a researcher here found. At age 2, children with prenatal dog exposure had a significant reduced risk of eczema compared to children whose mothers were not exposed to dogs (OR 0.48, 95% CI […]
A new case study describes how Tawny, a young nurse from Kentucky, posted a startling selfie on social media in April 2015, shortly after she had a skin cancer treatment. [She] was a regular user of tanning beds in her youth. She was diagnosed with skin cancer at age 21. By the time she was […]
Malignant melanoma is a less common but highly dangerous form of skin cancer. When found at an early stage, melanoma has one of the highest cure rates of all cancers at more than 90 per cent. If left untreated, melanoma starts to invade into the skin. When it reaches the blood stream or the lymphatic […]
These infections can be minor or serious. Here’s how to treat them. Fungal infections may call to mind itchy rashes, such as athlete’s foot. But the fungi normally found in soil and on plants, trees, skin, and more can cause a wide variety of infections. Some are surprisingly difficult to determine; others can be deadly serious. […]
The skin disorder rosacea should be added to the list of chronic diseases linked to obesity, researchers report. Their large new study found that the risk for rosacea increases among women as weight rises. The researchers reviewed the records of nearly 90,000 U.S. women, tracked over 14 years. They found a 48 percent higher likelihood […]
