If you’re looking for anti aging tips for staying young, you’ll be surprised to find the latest weapon in that struggle is not a new procedure or injection… it’s a glass of red wine every day according to Richard A. Baxter, MD, a Seattle plastic surgeon and author of Age Gets Better [...]
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
A national survey conducted by the American Academy of Dermatology finds that a good number of people don’t know enough about being safe in the sun to be able to protect themselves from the dangers of skin damage. Even with all the warnings, many people could not answer basic true/false statements on [...]
All of us, no matter our complexion type, need to be smarter about following sun safety tips. Your dermatologist will tell you wearing lots of sunscreen is the best protection against skin cancer. In recognition of the 33rd summer without FDA sunscreen safety guidelines, the Environmental Working Group has released its annual [...]
In honor of National Skin Cancer Awareness month, here’s some unexpected news… If you spend lots of time behind the wheel, you might have an increased skin cancer risk based on the findings of a new study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Skin cancers on the face were found [...]
A new study appearing in the May 2010 American Journal of Medicine has found that too few middle aged (and older) white Americans are getting skin cancer screenings. We all know that examining the skin surface can help identify skin cancers at an early stage, when they’re easiest to treat.
According to the [...]
By now you’ve heard that skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the U.S., and have probably also heard (maybe ignored) warnings about the sun. Now might be a good time to listen.
A paper on a new study that appears in the March 2010 issue of Archives of Dermatology [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
When it comes to looking older your skin is the feature that most reliably tells your age. A study by experts at Case Western Reserve Medical School in Cleveland using twin subjects finds that lifestyle choices, including smoking, being overweight, not using sunscreen, all take a toll on already sun damaged skin.
Twins were used because [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
Evidence that we use both eyes and ears to hear has been around since the mid 1970s, now a new Canadian study out of the University of British Columbia finds that inaudible puffs of air delivered along with certain sounds has an influence on what subjects thought they were hearing.
According to associate professor of linguistics [...]
More and more of us are using sunscreens to protect skin from sunburn, signs of early aging and some kinds of skin cancer. But what do we know about sunscreen effectiveness?
When you’re shopping for that sun protection product this summer, look beyond the package and the claims on the label… make sure you know exactly [...]
While we all know time spent baking on a beach without sunscreen is not a good idea, there are other, more routine things we all do that can be just as damaging to our skin and lead to UV skin damage.
Since skin cancers account for just about half of all cancers in the U.S. according [...]
