BAD 2014 Report: Sunlight, skin cancer and vitamin D – getting the balance right
by Esther Drain – Skin cancer is now the commonest cancer in the UK and the incidence is rising, mainly due to people taking more holidays in sunny… read more.
by Esther Drain – Skin cancer is now the commonest cancer in the UK and the incidence is rising, mainly due to people taking more holidays in sunny… read more.
Report from the British Association of Dermatologists Conference, held in Glasgow, 30th June -3rd July 2014 by Christine Clark. The use of antibiotics for acne could be phased… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Findings published on June 4 in the New England Journal of Medicine show that the antibiotic dalbavancin is as effective as vancomycin for treating serious bacterial… read more.
Exposing skin to sunlight may help to reduce blood pressure and thus cut the risk of heart attack and stroke, a study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology suggests.
Scientists believe they have an explanation for how the most common strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rapidly rose to prominence.
World Psoriasis Day is 29 October 2013. World Psoriasis Day is held today with the theme “Global access to treatment” to highlight the fact that more than 125… read more.
Smartphone applications that claim to evaluate a user’s photographs of skin lesions for the likelihood of cancer instead returned highly variable and often inaccurate feedback, according to a… read more.
by Gary Finnegan – World Health Matters (Germany) – Millions of people in Europe, the US and elsewhere use tanning beds every year ignoring the risk of skin… read more.
by Marybeth Burke – Median progression-free survival (PFS) was significantly greater in the trametinib group, 4.8 months, vs the chemotherapy group, 1.4 months, according to a study presented
Spanish scientists have confirmed that there is a clear relationship between androgenetic alopecia (common premature baldness) and benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH),
Pain caused by 2 different mechanisms Apply the ointment, light on, light off – that’s how easy it is to cure various forms of non-melanoma skin cancer. However,… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester taken from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Vismodegib (Erivedge), a new skin cancer drug for advanced basal cell carcinoma, was called “the greatest… read more.
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