Month: May 2022

May 26 2022

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The right moisturizer for children with eczema is the one that they like to use, study finds

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The Best Emollients for Eczema trial has found that no one type of moisturizer is better than another. This study highlights the importance of patient education and choice when deciding...

May 20 2022

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New breathable gas sensors may improve monitoring of health, environment

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Newly developed flexible, porous and highly sensitive nitrogen dioxide sensors that can be applied to skin and clothing have potential applications in health care, environmental health monitoring and military use,...

May 17 2022

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Electronic skin: Physicist develops multisensory hybrid material

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Recently developed ‘smart skin’ is very similar to human skin. It senses pressure, humidity and temperature simultaneously and produces electronic signals. More sensitive robots or more intelligent prostheses are thus...

May 15 2022

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Skin drug treatments may regress dangerous birthmarks and prevent melanoma

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About one in 20,000 infants is born with what’s called a congenital giant nevus — a huge, pigmented mole that may cover much of the face and body. Due to...

May 10 2022

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Drugs showing promise in cancer trials reduce scarring for scleroderma

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Epigenetic drugs that have shown promise in cancer trials significantly reduce scarring in the cells of patients with scleroderma, a new study shows. Results reveal that drugs that inhibit BRD4, known to...

May 05 2022

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Bye, bye, biopsy? Handheld device could painlessly identify skin cancers

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A new device uses millimeter-wave imaging — the same technology used in airport security scanners — to scan a patient’s skin to detect if they have skin cancer. Millimeter-wave rays...

May 04 2022

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Study finds healthy-appearing lupus skin predisposed to flares, rashes

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A new study finds that the normal-appearing skin of lupus patients contains the same inflammatory signals that are detected when the skin develops a rash, sometimes at even higher levels....