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Cell Signaling Breakthrough May Help Melanoma Treatment
The body's function of generating new cells and replacing dead ones usually works fine, but it is by no means perfect. The key to generating new cells is communication or signaling between cells, and if this process does not function properly, it can lead to uncontrolled cell growth, which is the basis for many cancers...

Pressure Ulcer Risk May Be Increased By Gastric Feeding Tubes
A new study led by Brown University researchers reports that percutaneous endoscopic gastric (PEG) feeding tubes, long assumed to help bedridden dementia patients stave off or overcome pressure ulcers, may instead make the horrible sores more likely to develop or not improve. The analysis of thousands of nursing home patients with advanced dementia appears in the Archives of Internal Medicine...

Sunburn Common Among Young Adults, USA
In the United States skin cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer, and melanoma is the most lethal type of skin cancer. According to two studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute, young adults are increasing their risk for developing the disease...

UV Camera Reveals Cancer-Causing Skin Damage
With high UV levels continuing in Queensland this autumn, young people are at risk of suffering the worst skin damage they will receive during their lifetime, research from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has found...

Investigating Potential Link Between Sunscreen Ingredient And Endometriosis
Scientists are reporting a possible link between the use of sunscreen containing a certain ingredient that mimics the effects of the female sex hormone estrogen and an increased risk of being diagnosed with endometriosis, a painful condition in which uterine tissue grows outside the uterus...

Multi-Center Study Reveals That Eye Color May Indicate Risk For Serious Skin Conditions
Eye color may be an indicator of whether a person is high-risk for certain serious skin conditions. A study, led by the University of Colorado School of Medicine, shows people with blue eyes are less likely to have vitiligo. It then follows, according to scientists, that people with brown eyes may be less likely to have melanoma...

Versatile Immune Cells Play Dual Roles In Human Skin
A new study helps to resolve an ongoing controversy about whether Langerhans cells (LCs) in human skin function to suppress the immune response and promote tolerance to normal human skin and its "friendly" microbial flora or mobilize a lethal attack against harmful foreign invaders...

What Is Vitiligo? What Causes Vitiligo?
Vitiligo is a continual and long term skin problem that produces white depigmentation patches that develop and enlarge only in certain sections of the skin...

Ouchless Bandages Made From Inexpensive, Abundant Starch Fibers
A process that spins starch into fine strands could take the sting out of removing bandages, as well as produce less expensive and more environmentally-friendly toilet paper, napkins and other products, according to Penn State food scientists...

Head And Facial Abnormal Features Repair Themselves
A report in the May issue of the journal Developmental Dynamics reveals that biologists from the Tufts University have, for the first time, discovered a "self-correcting" mechanism by which developing organisms recognize and repair head and facial abnormalities. This is the first time that this kind of flexible, corrective process has been rigorously analyzed through mathematical modeling...

Disease Fighting Properties Of Lactoferrin: Heals Wounds, Boosts Immunity And Protects From Cancer
Hans Vogel, a professor in the biological sciences department, is the guest editor of a special issue of the journal Biochemistry and Cell Biology that focuses on lactoferrin, an important iron-binding protein with many health benefits. "Some people describe this protein as the 'Swiss army knife' of the human host defense system," says Vogel...

Touch And Hearing Impaired By Gene Mutation
According to a study conducted by Dr. Henning Frenzel and Professor Gary R. Lewin of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, two of the 5 human senses - hearing and touch - have a common genetic basis. In individuals with Usher syndrome, the researchers identified a gene variation that is also responsible for the patients' impaired touch sensitivity...

Skin Problems Plague Athletes
The Olympics are all about the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." But for many Summer Games athletes, there's also the agony of skin irritations and conditions that can make the journey to the medal stand more difficult...

For Even Relatively Minor Burns, Binge Drinkers Suffer Healing Impairment, Slow Recovery
A Loyola University Medical Center study has found that binge drinking may slow recovery and increase medical costs for survivors of burn injuries. The study was presented during the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association in Seattle. Loyola researchers compared burn patients who were intoxicated above the legal limit with burn patients who had no alcohol in their blood...

Drug Delivery Via The Skin, Improved Understanding Of Skin Diseases Likely Following Research Breakthrough
A research team at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has succeeded in describing the structure and function of the outermost layer of the skin - the stratum corneum - at a molecular level. This opens the way not only for the large-scale delivery of drugs via the skin, but also for a deeper understanding of skin diseases...