Health

Is it safe for kids to use adult skincare products?

Over the holidays, Drunk Elephant skincare was a wish list mainstay, sending confused parents to beauty stores to puzzle over why their middle schoolers needed so many expensive products.

Pediatrics

Vitamin D lessens symptoms of severe eczema in children

Vitamin D supplementation eased the symptoms experienced by children with severe atopic dermatitis, or eczema, in a recent randomized controlled trial published in Pharmacology Research & Perspectives.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Leave-on facial products linked to frontal fibrosing alopecia

(HealthDay)—Leave-on facial skin care products seem to be associated with frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA), according to a study published online March 14 in the British Journal of Dermatology.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Acidic skin care product beneficial in older adults

(HealthDay)—For older adults, an acidic skin care product with different plant oils improves epidermal barrier formation and increases lipid lamellae in the intercellular space of the stratum corneum (SC), according to ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Clearing up common myths about psoriasis

Psoriasis is a misunderstood disease, often kept under wraps by sufferers who want to hide their skin lesions. This week, Dr. Sara Ferguson, a dermatologist at Penn State Medical Group in State College, separates fact from ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Itching for a solution to that rash?

(HealthDay)—Maybe it's a new soap or the dry, cold weather that has turned your hands red and itchy.

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