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Hyperhidrosis: how to deal with excessive sweating

Excessive sweating, or hyperhidrosis, is a common, embarrassing problem faced by many people, but rarely discussed. Many patients are embarrassed to...
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Treating dry skin: quenching your skin's thirst for moisture

The treatment of severely dry and scaly skin involves avoiding environments which may set off or exacerbate the problem and treating the skin...
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What is dry skin?

Dry skin, or xerosis (pronounced: zeer-oh-sis), is a common problem for people of all ages, all skin types, and in...
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Seborrheic keratoses: common growths mistaken for melanoma

Seborrheic keratosis (SK) is a very common benign skin tumor (or growth) which is often mistaken for an abnormal or cancerous mole. The tendency to...
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Vitiligo: Michael Jackson's skin disease

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Vitiligo is a skin disease which appears as the patchy appearance of complete loss of brown pigment (melanin) in the skin. In vitiligo, the cells...
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Glossary of cancer treatment terms

Benign: A growth which is not a cancer, and not a pre-cancer. Being benign is not a guarantee that a growth will...
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Abuse of ADHD medications by teens: an urgent report

The Iowa Statewide Poison Control Center (ISPCC) has issued an urgent report to Iowa physicians concerning the...
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Melanoma: treatment options

The treatment of melanoma skin cancer, no matter the stage, involves the surgical removal of the cancer and a margin of normal skin around the tumor....
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Melanoma: determining the stage of the cancer

Once the treating physician has received a pathology report with a diagnosis of melanoma he or she takes that information and stages the disease.Early...
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LATISSE: growing longer, thicker eyelashes

The latest cosmetic product on the market is LATISSE™ (generic name bimatoprost), a prostaglandin analog which was originally developed to treat...
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