FDA Approves Elidel Cream for Eczema
...) cream for treating mild to moderate forms of the skin condition called atopic dermatitis, or eczema. The skin condition is common, causing red, swollen, and itchy rashes that often seep and ooze. The drug maker...High vitamin A increases risk of hip fractures
... Vitamin A is important for such things as healthy skin and hair and bone growth.// Researchers found that women with the highest total intake - both from food and vitamin supplements - had double the risk of hip fractures compared with women with the lowest intake. One theory is that too much vitamin A......ld increase the chances of a number of more common skin cancers. However, research published in the Journ...tionship between// tanning lamps and many types of skin cancer like basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma. Researchers from the Dartmo...... that smoking actuates the genes responsible for a skin enzyme that breaks down collagen in the skin.// Collagen is the main structural protein of the skin and maintains the elasticity of the skin. When this starts to deteriorate, skin begins to sag and wr...New Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise
...dritic cells are then injected under the patient's skin to trigger immune system to destroy the tumor. Pa...ications in other cancers, particularly kidney and skin cancer....Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk
...of sun exposure is that too much of it can lead to skin cancer. In the study, Dr. William B. Grant, an in...d. "What is clear is that ultraviolet light causes skin cancer," Thun said. And there are other sources of vitamin D, including fish and fortified milk. In ...Mutation connected to Osteoporosis
...ing cells to differentiate not into muscle, fat or skin but rather into bone it may provide a model to help researchers understand how they can manipulate cells in people with osteoporosis to grow bone. Dr. Michael J. Econs, a bone researcher at the University of Indiana, Indianapolis, said Levine's team......ts say that paying extra for expensive vitamins in skin creams that promise to erase fine lines and preven...en proven to decrease the effect of the sun on the skin and actually prevent further damage: selenium, vitamin E, and vitamin C." But the problem with apply......us in Europe and the US, winter can be hard on the skin and you need to take extra care. The experts say y...n to 15 minutes. Lukewarm water is easier on the skin than very hot, and you shouldn't rub yourself dry with a towel - pat your skin instead. When it come...Toxin connected to 'Flesh-eating' Pneumonia in Kids
... minor, causing problems such as pimples and other skin conditions. But the bacteria can also spread to the blood and cause serious infections of the bone, heart and other tissue. Based on their series of cases, the researchers conclude that "pneumonia caused by PVL-positive S. aureus seems to be a speci......y as much attention to your hair as you do to your skin - even though it's dead tissue and cannot, for instance, develop cancer like your skin can. The best way to treat damaged cuticle - aside from avoiding the causes - is to use a good con...Lack of solar radiation causes cancer
Exposure to UV-B radiation may cause skin cancer, but it also prevents many other cancers th...nburn// - as a risk factor for melanoma, and other skin cancers. That is generally true, but what is not generally realised is that the reverse may also be ...The incidence of skin cancer in men has increased by 12% in six years, a...er a five-year period. However survival rates from skin cancers are good if it the condition is caught early.Cancer experts say women have previously had hi...Oestrogen to help mental health
...treated 12 schizophrenic women with both oestrogen skin patches and risperidone for a month. She compared her results with a control group of 16 women just receiving risperidone and found those taking oestrogen as well had fewer symptoms. "Several patients in the oestrogen group went from having terribl...Needle free future for diabetics
A way which draws substances into and out of the skin without pricking it makes for easier blood testing...ed 'Glucowatch' which extracts glucose through the skin using iontophoresis. This allows the constant monitoring of blood glucose that's necessary to keep d...A promising treatment for wart removal
...y successful. The immunotherapy involves injecting skin antigens - molecules which will stimulate the immune system - and represents a completely new approach to wart treatment. The researchers are now recruiting volunteers for a larger trial which, if successful, will lead to its eventual licensing and w...Enzyme stimulates growth of adult stem cells
... stem cells have shown up in mature kidney, liver, skin and gastrointestinal tissue. A long-standing problem with adult stem cells is that they are relatively rare and secluded in the body, which has severely hampered attempts to investigate their use in treating disease. Dr. Shahin Rafii of Cornell Uni...Gene therapy - Aim to improve blood flow
...n San Francisco, found a way to produce mice whose skin cells had high levels of activity of a gene called HIF-1. Researchers have managed to produce a genetically-altered mouse which has grown large numbers of new blood capillaries in its skin. This gene is known to send commands to several other genes...... data on malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, between 1981 and 1999.// They find there h...ably because people are more aware of the signs of skin cancer, and seek help at an earlier stage. There is still room, say the researchers, for changes in ...