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How to Care for Eyelid Skin

Attention all you eye beauty addicts! We want to help you keep your eyes glowing and healthy. The delicate eye skin, at less than 1 mm thick, is the thinnest on your entire body and it gets lots of wear and tear. This makes it prone to environmental and sun damage,...

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Skin cancer is increasing among millennials

May was skin cancer awareness month and we always revisit the dangers of unprotected sun exposure. The number of cases of melanoma in young adults is on the rise. Millennials are especially vulnerable, because they seem to underestimate the dangers of the sun and skin...

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Lyme Disease: A Year-Round Problem

Lyme disease is a widespread tick-borne disease in the United States. It is caused by the spirochete (bacteria) Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans by the blacklegged deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) and the western blacklegged deer tick (Ixodes...

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Good News for Patients with Advanced Skin Cancer

Good News for Patients with Advanced Skin Cancer

Good news for patients with locally advanced and metastatic (when the cancer cells spread from the place where they first formed to another part of the body) basal cell carcinoma (BCC). The FDA has approved cemiplimab-rwlc (Libtayo®; Regneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and...

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Feed Your Skin: Fatty Fish

Fish that are fatty, like salmon, herring and mackerel, are important for healthy skin. They are all abundant in omega-3 fatty acids, which are vital for supporting optimal skin and hair.

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Is a chemical peel good for my skin?

Chemical peels work by making use of the wound-healing activity that takes place when the skin is damaged. Application of a chemical peel induces controlled skin injury through the use of a caustic substance applied to skin.

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Botox®: What is it and how does it work?

Clostridium botulinum is the bacterium from which Botox is derived.They inhibit the release of acetylcholine (a chemical messenger [neurotransmitter] that assists in carrying signals across the nerve synapse) from the motor neuron, causing temporary paralysis of the treated muscles.

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