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Multiple Low-energy Plasma Skin Treatments May Help Diminish Facial Wrinkles (February 27, 2007) -- A study involving eight patients suggests that multiple low-energy treatments with a plasma skin regeneration tool may help to reduce wrinkles and improve facial appearance with minimal healing time, ... > full story

'Buckyballs' Penetrate Deeper, Faster When Skin Is Flexed, Study Shows (February 25, 2007) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that repetitive flexing movements increase the speed and depth at which tiny particles are absorbed through the skin, a finding that ... > full story

Scientists Produce Neurons From Human Skin (February 22, 2007) -- Scientists in Canada have succeeded in producing neurons in vitro using stem cells extracted from adult human skin. This is the first time such an advanced state of nerve cell differentiation has ... > full story

Science Behind A Wrinkle-filler: Researchers Discover For First Time How Product Works (February 20, 2007) -- The current battle between the makers of anti-wrinkle products -- widely compared with the Coke and Pepsi struggle for superiority -- is receiving an injection of scientific understanding with the ... > full story

The Psychology Of Skin Cancer (February 12, 2007) -- Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers. The incidences of the most dangerous type -- melanoma -- have has doubled over the past 20 years. Now an online survey aims to learn how people of ... > full story

Scientists Clone Mice From Adult Skin Stem Cells (February 12, 2007) -- Using a nuclear transfer procedure, scientists at Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have, for the first time, shown reproducibly that mice can be cloned from adult stem ... > full story

Vitamin D3 Provides Skin With Protection From Harmful Microbes (February 12, 2007) -- A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine shows that fluctuations in vitamin D3 levels control the body's innate immune response, affecting a skin ... > full story

Human Skin Harbors Completely Unknown Bacteria (February 6, 2007) -- It appears that the skin, the largest organ in our body, is a kind of zoo and some of the inhabitants are quite novel, according to a new ... > full story

Skin Needs 'Winterizing' To Head Off Damage (February 6, 2007) -- Results of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) suggest that at least 81 million Americans experience dry, itchy or scaly skin during the winter months due to blasts of colder, dryer air, ... > full story

Oral Wounds Heal Slower In Women, Older Adults, Study Finds (February 2, 2007) -- Wounds in the mouth heal more slowly in women and older adults, a new study at the University of Illinois at Chicago ... > full story

WHO Revives Efforts To Eliminate Forgotten Disease: Yaws (January 30, 2007) -- A neglected disease with a nearly forgotten name is making a comeback following a global control programme that almost eradicated it more than 40 years ago. Yaws, a disease which eats away at the ... > full story

Chemicals In Brown Algae May Protect Against Skin Cancer (January 26, 2007) -- Substances extracted from a marine seaweed may protect against skin cancer caused by too much sun, new research suggests. The animal study indicates that chemicals called brown algae polyphenols ... > full story

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Dr. Denese's Secrets for Ageless Skin : Younger Skin in 8 Weeks
American women spend 4.3 billion dollars a year on skin care products that just don't work. Now, anti-aging expert Dr. Adrienne Denese draws on recent medical breakthroughs, the development of new ... > read more

The Skin Type Solution : A Revolutionary Guide to Your Best Skin Ever
From Dr. Leslie Baumann, a world-renowned dermatologist, comes a program that’s revolutionizing the way people everywhere think about–and shop for–skin care. Now you can identify ... > read more

Losing Your Pounds of Pain
This book shows how you can break the damaging connection between emotional pain and overeating to uncover your true, natural self by shedding the false skin of ... > read more

Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology
...should serve as a standard against which all future atlases will be measured..."* -New England Journal of Medicine, review of third edition ...an excellent resource for all health care ... > read more

Celiac Disease : A Hidden Epidemic
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that affects nearly one in every hundred people. Unfortunately, 97 percent remain undiagnosed and untreated. They continue to suffer from gastrointestinal ... > read more

The Perricone Weight-loss Diet: A Simple 3-part Program To Lose The Fat, The Wrinkles, And The Years
In The Perricone Weight-loss Diet, the father of the Inflammation Theory of Aging reveals the role of internal micro-inflammations, caused mainly by additive-packed foods and a sedentary lifestyle, ... > read more

Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology with Essentials of InterActive Physiology CD-ROM (8th Edition)
Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology, Eighth Edition continues to set the standard for A&P; texts with an enhanced media package and new active learning features that help readers better visualize ... > read more

Living Well with Hypothyroidism Rev Ed : What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You... that You Need to Know
As many as one in eight women have a thyroid condition. In Living Well with Hypothyroidism, Mary Shomon outlines the most common of these--too little thyroid hormones in the body. Weight gain, ... > read more

The Anatomy Coloring Book (3rd Edition)
Often imitated, never duplicated. New! Lay-flat binding makes coloring easier. New! 8 plates have been added: Accessory Structures of the Skin, Temporomandibular Joint, Upper Limb: Shoulder ... > read more

The Inflammation Syndrome : The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies, and Asthma
Challem's new book hits a home run -; with the latest research on what to eat and take to defeat our real number-one cause of health problems -; inflammation. It's a message of the utmost ... > read more