New Study Shows Vitamin D3 Treatments Helps with Hives

A study by researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center shows vitamin D provide some relief for chronic hives. Chronic hives is a condition with no cure and few treatment options. Chronic hives is usually an allergic skin condition that creates red, itchy welts on the skin and sometimes swelling. They can occur daily…

New Study Links Air Pollution to Liver Spots

​New Study Links Air Pollution to Liver Spots Recent study of german and Chinese women found a link between traffic-sourced air pollution forming lentigenes, or dark spots on the skin.  The spots appeared on the woman’s cheeks. “In addition to particulate matter, traffic-related air pollution is characterized by increased concentration of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). While NO2 exposure is known to be associated with low lung function…

New Testing Uses Skin Cells As Cancer-Cell Killers

​Recent study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers are looking into ways skin cells can hunt and destroy brain tumors. This is the first of these experiments and they may offer a treatment for cancer. The experiments use Nobel-Prize winning technology that created embryonic-like stem cells from skin cells. The embryonic-like stem cells were thought to be…

Wrestling Highest in Skin Diseases, Study Finds

Wrestling Sport Found to Be High In Skin Infections, study says. Recent survey found high school wrestlers have the highest amount of infections and football players come in second,according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The study used data of U.S. high school from the past five years.  73.6 percent of skin infections were initiated from…