News articles tagged with 'skin'
Scientists discover cells that control inflammation in chronic disease
— 18 Nov 2009 09:50 | HealthA new type of immune cell that can be out of control in certain chronic inflammatory diseases, worsening the symptoms of conditions like psoriasis and asthma, is described for the first... — full story
Text message reminders can encourage healthy action
— 17 Nov 2009 16:14 | HealthPeople who received daily text messages reminding them to apply sunscreen were nearly twice as likely to use it as those who did not receive such messages, a new study led by a UC Davis... — full story
Skin colour gives clues to health
— 17 Nov 2009 14:34 | HealthResearchers from the universities of Bristol and St. Andrews in the UK have found that the colour of a person's skin affects how healthy and therefore attractive they appear, and have... — full story
Adapting space-industry technology to treat breast cancer
— 3 Nov 2009 11:44 | HealthResearchers at Rush University Medical Centre and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle... — full story
Smokers with common autoimmune disorder at higher risk for skin damage
— 3 Nov 2009 11:35 | HealthAs if there weren't enough reasons to stop smoking, a team of researchers at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have just found another. A study... — full story
Switching immunosuppressants reduces cancer risk in kidney
— 1 Nov 2009 08:36 | HealthSwitching to a newer type of immunosuppressant drug may reduce the high rate of skin cancer after kidney transplantation, according to research being presented at the American Society... — full story
Resident physicians seldom trained in skin cancer examination
— 20 Oct 2009 10:33 | HealthMany resident physicians are not trained in skin cancer examinations, nor have they ever observed or practised the procedure, according to a report in the October issue of Archives... — full story
Aggressive microdermabrasion induces wound-healing response in ageing skin
— 20 Oct 2009 09:41 | HealthMicrodermabrasion using a coarse diamond-studded instrument appears to induce molecular changes in the skin of older adults that mimic the way skin is remodelled during the wound healing... — full story
New findings on the formation of body pigment
— 18 Oct 2009 12:13 | HealthThe skin's pigment cells can be formed from completely different cells than has hitherto been thought, a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet shows. The... — full story
Skin cells may provide early warning for cancer risk elsewhere in body
— 16 Oct 2009 11:25 | HealthWhile some scientists have argued that cancer is such a complex genetic disease that you'd have to sequence a person's complete genome in order to predict his or her cancer risk, a... — full story