According to the U.S. Adopting protective habits like applying broad-spectrum sunscreen and wearing UV-blocking sunglasses helps mitigate the dangers of UV rays across the year. Understanding Year-Round UV Exposure and Skin Risks Sun damage happens regardless of the weather. According to the U.S. This exposure can cause sunburn, early skin aging (such as skin spots, … Read more
A pre-teen boy was treated in the hospital for erythema ab igne, a skin condition causing discoloration and a distinctive “fishnet” rash, after resting his charging laptop on his bare abdomen for up to eight hours a day, according to a report published in the medical journal BMJ Case Reports and covered by Life Technology. … Read more
A therapeutic approach for multiple sclerosis developed at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is moving toward clinical application, backed by a EUR 1.1 million funding boost from ForTra gGmbH for Research Transfer, according to university announcements on September 1, 2026. ForTra Funding Drives GMP Production and Phase I Trials ForTra gGmbH for Research Transfer, a nonprofit … Read more
Injectable hyaluronic acid microgels carrying radioactive iodine-131 offer a precise, minimally invasive method to deliver localized radiation therapy to keloid scars, according to a preclinical study published by researchers at Pusan National University. The strategy aims to overcome the targeting limitations of conventional external-beam radiation when treating small, irregular skin lesions. The Keloid Treatment Challenge … Read more
Heloísa and Helena Batista da Silva, two-year-old conjoined twin sisters from Roraima, Brazil, died just 14 minutes apart after suffering cardiac arrests during a grueling 15-hour separation surgery, according to hospital medical staff. The procedure marked the fifth and final operation for the toddlers, who were born craniopagus—a rare condition where twins are joined at … Read more
According to the university, the new training app aims to help healthcare workers in Africa accurately detect the condition, which is frequently misdiagnosed due to symptoms that resemble cervical cancer and sexually transmitted infections. The Diagnostic Challenge in African Healthcare Female genital schistosomiasis is caused by the flatworm Schistosoma, which lives in fresh water and … Read more
Immunosuppressed patients diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer are not lacking vital cancer-fighting immune cells as previously believed, but rather possess macrophages that have lost their ability to communicate effectively, according to a study published in Cell by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The findings reveal that macrophages in patients with … Read more
Researchers at Taiyuan University of Technology and The University of Tokyo have developed a fully flexible sensing-memory integrated system that solves the traditional mechanical mismatch between rigid silicon-based memory and flexible sensors, according to Tsinghua University Press. The monolithically integrated platform combines an organic thin-film transistor pressure sensor with a flexible floating-gate organic thin-film transistor … Read more
A world-first national mass drug administration program using ivermectin has drastically reduced scabies cases and secondary skin infections across Solomon Islands and Fiji, according to a new study published in Nature Health. Led by the World Scabies Program at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and involving researchers from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney, the … Read more
Cellular reprogramming to repair damaged heart tissue faces a major hurdle as scientists uncover how carbohydrate sulfotransferase 7 (CHST7) and CD44 receptors lock cellular identities in place, according to research published July 17, 2026, in Nature Communications by teams at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. … Read more