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New Findings on Genetic Risks of Behçet's Disease
February 17, 2013 — Researchers don't know the exact cause of Behçet's disease, a condition that leads to serious complications such as blindness, but new research brings better understanding to what makes some ... > full story -
Modern Life May Cause Sun Exposure, Skin Pigmentation Mismatch
February 17, 2013 — As people move more often and become more urbanized, skin color -- an adaptation that took hundreds of thousands of years to develop in humans -- may lose some of its evolutionary advantage, ... > full story -
Evolution Helped Turn Hairless Skin Into a Canvas for Self-Expression
February 17, 2013 — Hairless skin first evolved in humans as a way to keep cool -- and then turned into a canvas to help them look cool, according to an ... > full story -
Newer, Shorter-Course Antibiotic Shows Similar Effectiveness for Treating Skin Infection
February 12, 2013 — Treatment with a newer antibiotic, tedizolid phosphate, once daily for 6 days was statistically noninferior (no worse than) in efficacy to the antibiotic linezolid twice daily for 10 days for both ... > full story -
New Technology Gives Doctors an Important Diagnostic Tool
February 6, 2013 — When cocaine producers began using an inexpensive medication, levamisole, to dilute the cocaine to boost their profits, their customers were showing up in hospital emergency rooms with serious skin ... > full story -
Injection-Free Vaccination Technique Could Address Global Vaccine Challenge for HIV, Malaria
February 4, 2013 — Scientists have demonstrated the ability to deliver a dried live vaccine to the skin without a traditional needle, and shown for the first time that this technique is powerful enough to enable ... > full story -
Gene Finding May Lead to Treatments Effective Against All MRSA Strains
January 31, 2013 — New research has pinpointed a gene that causes the dominant strain of MRSA infection to linger on the skin longer than other strains, allowing it to be passed more readily from one person to the ... > full story -
Leading by the Nose: Star-Nosed Mole Reveals How Mammals Perceive Touch, Pain
January 30, 2013 — The most sensitive patch of mammalian skin known to us isn't human but on the star-shaped tip of the star-nosed mole's snout. Researchers studying this organ have found that the star has a higher ... > full story -
Sorting out Stroking Sensations: Biologists Find Individual Neurons in Skin That React to Massage
January 30, 2013 — The skin is a human being's largest sensory organ, helping to distinguish between a pleasant contact, like a caress, and a negative sensation, like a pinch or a burn. Previous studies have shown that ... > full story -
Silibinin, Found in Milk Thistle, Protects Against UV-Induced Skin Cancer
January 30, 2013 — Milk thistle extract, silibinin, kills skin cells mutated by UVA radiation and protects against damage by UVB radiation -- thus protecting against UV-induced skin cancer and photo-aging, according to ... > full story
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