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Researchers study toenails as marker for arsenic exposure

(PhysOrg.com) -- UA scientists have teamed up to study the relationship between arsenic in human toenails and arsenic concentration in drinking water. Exposure to arsenic is associated with several chronic diseases ranging ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Immune cell plays dual role in allergic skin disease

(Medical Xpress) -- An immune cell involved in initiating the symptoms of an allergic skin reaction may play an equally, or perhaps more important, role in suppressing the reaction once it becomes chronic. This finding in ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Objective evidence of skin infestation lacking in patients with diagnosis of delusional infestation

Among patients with a diagnosis of delusional skin infestation, neither biopsies nor patient-provided specimens provided objective evidence of skin infestation, according to a report posted online today that will be published ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Food allergies not tied to eczema for most

Eczema is notoriously difficult to treat in children. The torturous dry-skin disease causes intense itching and sleeplessness, and sometimes parents try making dietary changes in addition or in place of conventional ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study reveals major shift in how eczema develops

Like a fence or barricade intended to stop unwanted intruders, the skin serves as a barrier protecting the body from the hundreds of allergens, irritants, pollutants and microbes people come in contact with every day. In ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Allergy treatment may cause new allergy

Allergic contact dermatitis from aluminium has previously been considered very unusual. However, there are now reports of pruritic nodules and aluminium allergy arising after vaccinations or treatments for allergies. Researcher ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lower occurrence of atopic dermatitis in children thanks to farm animals and cats

Children whose mothers are exposed to farm animals and cats are better protected against atopic dermatitis and are less likely to develop this painful inflammation of the skin in their first two years of life. A group of ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Choice of career is a major risk factor for persistent neurodermatitis

A child who can't stop scratching himself may well be suffering from atopic dermatitis, also known as neurodermatitis. Extreme irritability of the skin with a concomitant urge to scratch is typical of the disorder. The condition ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Better animal-free test for chemicals that can cause contact dermatitis

Scientists are reporting development of a fast, simple, inexpensive method for determining whether chemicals in consumer products and workplaces may cause skin allergies in people -- a method that does not ...

Chemistry / Other

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In Infants with Egg or Milk Allergy, Can Future Peanut Allergy Be Predicted?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Early results from a study of more than 500 infants with egg or milk allergy indicate that they are highly likely to test positive for allergic antibodies that are specific to peanuts. This unexpected finding ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lack of omega-6 fatty acid linked to severe dermatitis

University of Illinois scientists have learned that a specific omega-6 fatty acid may be critical to maintaining skin health.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Identified: Switch that turns on allergic disease in people

A new study in human cells has singled out a molecule that specifically directs immune cells to develop the capability to produce an allergic response. The signaling molecule, called thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), is ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Some Eczema Sufferers More Prone to Smallpox and Other Viruses

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the World Health Organization proclaimed smallpox officially eradicated in late 1979 - thanks to vaccination programs that produced a protective “herd immunity” for most of the globe ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists unlock mystery of potentially fatal reaction to smallpox vaccine

Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology have pinpointed the cellular defect that increases the likelihood, among eczema sufferers, of developing eczema vaccinatum, a severe and potentially fatal reaction ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 7

Why does eczema often lead to asthma?

Many young children who get a severe skin rash develop asthma months or years later. Doctors call the progression from eczema, or atopic dermatitis, to breathing problems the atopic march. In this week's issue of PLoS Bi ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Dermatitis

Dermatitis is inflammation of the skin (i.e. rash).

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