Eczema Patients Most At Risk For Dangerous Viral Infections
Eczema patients at risk for serious viral infections have more severe disease, are more likely to be allergic to food and other allergens, and have a frequent history of staph infections

Dermatitis Is More Prevalent In Humid Cities Where There Is A High Level Of Rainfall
Climate affects children who have atopic dermatitis, a recurrent disease of the skin.

New Risk Variant For Atopic Dermatitis Identified
Scientists have identified a gene variant on chromosome 11 that is associated with an increased risk of atopic dermatitis

Don't Scratch That Itch: Blocking The Protein IL-21R Helps Prevent A Form Of Eczema
Raif Geha and colleagues, at Children's Hospital, Boston, have identified a role for the protein IL-21R in a mouse model of atopic dermatitis, a common allergic inflammatory skin disease often known as eczema.

Stressed-out Skin Loses Its Antimicrobial Defense Mechanism
It is well known that being stressed increases our susceptibility to infections by impairing the function of our immune system, but the molecular links between stress and diminished immune function have not been determined.

Stress May Make You Itch
Current research suggests that stress may activate immune cells in your skin, resulting in inflammatory skin disease.

Skin Creams Can Make Skin Drier
Many people have noticed that as soon as you start using a skin cream, you have to continue with it; if you stop lubricating, your skin becomes drier than when you started.

Severe psoriasis associated with increased risk of death
Patients with severe psoriasis appear to have an increased risk of death compared with patients without the skin condition

Skin care: new research into scar-free healing
By suppressing one of the genes that normally switches on in wound cells, wounds can heal faster and reduce scarring

Melanomas may appear noticeably different than other moles
A preliminary study suggests that melanomas have a different appearance than other irregular skin moles

Improved diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis thanks to new techniques
Dutch researcher Wendy van der Meide has developed and evaluated new techniques for a better diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis

Treating Acne: Two Different Peels Both Effective, SLU Study Finds
Chemical peels using either alpha-hydroxy acid or beta-hydroxy acid are both highly effective in treating mild to moderately severe facial acne

Retinol lotion reduces the fine wrinkles from natural aging of skin
Products previously were thought only to improve skin aged by sun

New radiation technique can greatly reduce painful skin burns in women with breast cancer
Breast cancer patients who undergo a new radiation technique called IMRT after surgery are three times less likely to have severe skin reactions from the treatment compared to standard radiation therapy

Skin diseases in male prisoners
Prison is the place like other communal places where we can find specific diseases more than normal community itself.

Circumferential skin folds in a child: A case of Michelin tire baby syndrome
A six-month-old girl who presented with dermatitis was found to have multiple, symmetric, deep, gyrate skin folds involving her trunk and similar circumferential lesions on her extremities since birth.

Immunohistochemical expression of interleukin 8 in skin biopsies from patients with inflammatory acne vulgaris
This study was conducted to evaluate the immunohistochemical (IHC) expression of interleukin 8 (IL-8) in skin biopsies of inflammatory acne vulgaris (IAV) in an attempt to understand the disease pathogenesis.

Topical retinol helps reduce wrinkles associated with natural skin aging
Applying vitamin A to the skin appears to improve the wrinkles associated with natural aging and may help to promote the production of skin-building compounds

New Study Looks At Sensitivity To Sun
A project designed to try and explain the way genes influence sensitivity to sun is underway at the University of Edinburgh.

Fewer wrinkles and firmer skin linked to earlier use of estrogen therapy
Long-term hormone estrogen therapy used earlier in menopause is associated with fewer wrinkles and less skin rigidity in postmenopausal women