Category Archives: In the News
New Drug Extends Lives of Melanoma Patients
Web MD reports on a new drug, ipilimumab, that doubled the 1- and 2-yr survival rates for those with late-stage melanoma. Continue reading
Tanning could be addictive for some people, study says
The New York Daily News reports on a new study that suggests tanning may be addictive. 30 to 40 percent of the indoor tanners they surveyed met the psychiatric diagnostic criteria for addiction (depending on the scale that was used). Continue reading
PLX4032 for Melanoma
How do life-saving drugs become accessible to the patients who need them? This three-day series from the New York Times explores the emotions, frustrations, and successes inherent in this difficult process. Continue reading
Creams Offering Lighter Skin May Bring Risk
For years, Allison Ross rubbed in skin-lightening creams with names like Hyprogel and Fair & White. She said she wanted to even out and brighten the tone of her face, neck and hands. Mrs. Ross, 45, who lives in Brooklyn, also said that she used the lightening creams “to be more accepted in society.” Continue reading
Skin Cancer Diagnosis
Blacks and Hispanics are less likely than whites to develop melanoma, but when they learn they have it, the skin cancer is often at an advanced stage, a new study of cases in Florida has found. Continue reading
Hair Care On A Budget
How to have healthy hair on a budget- which expensive products to avoid and which affordable products to use. Continue reading
Predicting who will survive skin cancer
Researchers at NYU’s Langone Medical Center, using a combination of tumor analysis and powerful computer chip technology, believe they have found a way to identify potential long-term survivors from within the patient group whose disease has metastasized beyond the skin to other organs. Continue reading
Skin scanners
You may have seen them around, those gray or white sci-fi looking boxes that show what kind of sun damage you could have. Wonder no more! The secrets of that mysterious machine are unraveled. Continue reading
Cancer and Teen Tanning: Where’s the Regulation?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendation — for adults — is to keep tanning-bed exposure to no more than three times a week during the first week of tanning. And yet a survey of more than 3,600 tanning salons in 50 states has found that 71% would turn a blind eye to that guideline when it came to teenage customers. Most salons said they would readily allow teenagers to tan seven times a week. Continue reading
Demand For Cosmetic And Surgical Procedures In Dermatologic Surgery Rising Rapidly
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the Laser and Skin Cancer Center of Indiana, (Carmel, Indiana), found that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of procedures performed and patient demand for dermatologic health care since 2000. Continue reading