Dermatology

Researchers from the UK and Netherlands have identified five distinct subgroups of eczema, a finding that helps explain how the condition can affect people at different stages of their lives. [...]

People with psoriasis are at a higher risk to develop type 2 diabetes than those without psoriasis, and the risk increases dramatically based on the severity of the disease. Researchers from the [...]

Two decades ago, oncologists realised that molecular biologists could see medically important differences between tumours that looked identical to pathologists. Molecular biologists could read [...]

Research from the Universities of Dundee and Oxford has shown how combining the tetanus vaccine with a viral particle that normally affects cucumbers can be used to treat psoriasis and allergies, [...]

A new British Journal of Dermatology study explores the relationship between seasonality and hair loss at a population level using Google Trends data. Across all eight countries analysed in the [...]

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have been awarded £1.2 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop a new type of bandage to treat infections [...]

By carefully tracing a line of at least two millimetres outside of and around the edges of a mole that is suspected of being a cancer, doctors can remove all of its cells and avert the need for a [...]

Tobacco smokers are twice as likely to develop a debilitating skin disease, according to new research recently published in the British Journal of Dermatology. Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a [...]

Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Harvard Medical School and MIT have designed a smart bandage that could eventually heal chronic wounds or battlefield injuries with every [...]

A protein which protects the foetus during pregnancy, HLA-G1, shows high potential for treating atopic dermatitis and other related diseases. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-G is a protein that [...]