EXPERT advice from Dr Zoe Williams, our resident specialist and NHS GP This week Dr Zoe Williams helps a reader who is ...

LMU researchers have discovered how the interplay between a key protein and an endolysosomal ion channel promotes tumor ...

It’s a time to pay attention to your skin, learn about skin care, and adopt habits that can lead to a lifetime of healthier skin, hair, and nails. The AAD launched the first National Healthy Skin ...

Collecting images of suspicious-looking skin growths and sending them off-site for specialists to analyze is as accurate in ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a new, sprayable delivery system for psoriasis ...

People are being warned that a red-flag sign of cancer can often be mistaken for a common skin condition. Eczema, which affects 1.5 million adults in the UK, and skin cancer can cause similar symptoms ...

Actinic keratosis is a pre-cancerous area of thick, scaly, or crusty skin ... development of deep learning algorithms that can predict which actinic keratosis skin lesions are likely to turn into SCC.

What are skin pigment disorders? Skin color is determined by a pigment (melanin) made by specialized cells in the skin (melanocytes). The amount and type of melanin determines a person's skin color.

The latest research, detailed in the arXiv paper, expands on the Fitzpatrick skin type scale, traditionally used to classify skin tones based on responses to UV exposure, to include more nuanced ...

However, the lesion segmentation remains a challenge to state-of-the-art CNN-based algorithms due to the variance in scales and shapes. On the one hand, tiny lesions are hard to delineate precisely ...

Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes raised areas of dry, itchy, scaly skin. It is not contagious but can cause unsightly and even painful lesions covering large parts of the body in ...

Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD To confirm a psoriasis diagnosis, your healthcare provider will check your skin and scalp ...