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New Therapeutics Could Accelerate Wound Healing
February 20, 2013 Chemistry and biochemistry professors report a discovery to exploit our body's ability to heal itself, that could lead to new bio-mimicking therapeutics to treat skin ... > full story -
Gene Linked to Worse Outcomes for Melanoma
February 19, 2013 Scientists have identified a gene present in some melanoma which appears to make the tumor cells more resistant to ... > full story -
Baby Wash Does Not Damage Baby's Skin Barrier Function, Study Finds
February 18, 2013 New research has found washing newborn babies in a specific baby wash is just as safe as using water alone in terms of maintaining healthy ... > full story -
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
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