Melanin makes skin vulnerable to harmful ultraviolet rays
...e to skin cancer, but the source of their skin and hair pigmentation, melanin, actually magnifies the dama...lanin filters out UV radiation, but the melanin in hair follicles, particularly in light hair, actually increases the sun damaging effects of UV rays and ca...Denver physician patents minimally invasive technology for hair transplantation surgery
...e technology which will revolutionize the field of hair transplantation surgery. The new system utilizes a... extract and transplant single follicular units of hair without the trauma associated with other types of hair transplantation surgery. According to Dr. Har...U-M team treating mouth wounds by engineering tissue grafts
... mouth, and if it is too thick, it might even grow hair inside the mouth. A large skin graft also leaves the patient in pain with lengthy healing time. Feinberg said tissue engineering has many advantages, including a smaller donor site that heals faster and a graft that is mucosal cells, more like the...Left and right ears not created equal as newborns process sound, finds UCLA/UA research
...ona, Sininger studied tiny amplifiers in the outer hair cells of the inner ear. "When we hear a so...y the vibrations," explained Sininger. "The inner hair cells convert the vibrations to neural cells and send them to the brain, which decodes the input." ...Two landmark studies show Taxotere (R) significantly improves survival in men with prostate cancer
... The most common non-severe side effects include hair loss, numbness, a tingling and/or burning sensation, rash, nail changes, nausea, vomiting, and muscle pain. Less common severe or potentially life threatening side effects include fluid retention, infections, and allergic reactions. Patients 65 year...Research study profiles indoor tanners
...onal in structure and most have been removed from hair salons men are more comfortable coming in to tan," said Greg Henson, president of Heartland Tanning, one of America's leading indoor tanning equipment and accessory distributors. "As the documented, medically-sound health benefits of tanning have be...Unraveling the secrets of the brain's smallest cells
...re tiny. Their size 20 times smaller than a human hair has made it extremely difficult for scientists to study them in action. Granule cells make up the input layer of the cerebellum and receive sensory information from the body, for example when a finger touches a surface. The cerebellum is thought to...Study shows opioid growth factor safe for treatment of pancreatic cancer
...inal problems. Nor were there side effects such as hair loss, nausea or loss of appetite. Quality of life surveys administered before and during the study showed that patients had improved social interaction and alertness behavior, improved sleep and rest, mobility and communication. Pain and depression ...Mild noise damage can be detected by cells in the inner ear
...ists now report evidence that the delicate sensory hair cells of the inner ear might react to being damaged by triggering calcium signals in surrounding tissues. The findings help further our understanding of how the ear reacts to damage, not only by loud, prolonged noise, but also by loud sound for just ...Mount Sinai to offer NearVision CK
...ia, CK uses a probe thinner than a strand of human hair to apply radio waves in a circular pattern on the outer cornea, shrinking small areas of tissue. This circular pattern creates a constrictive band (like the tightening of a belt), increasing the overall curvature of the cornea to improve the patient...Going low tech, low cost to ease the terrors of dementia
...sures. For a woman, that might include combing her hair and putting on some makeup and letting her look at herself in a mirror, or helping her put on hand lotion and having her smell it. For a man, it could be taking him outdoors for a walk if that's something he has loved doing all his life. You can do s...Tiny molecular motors shed light on cell function, say Stanford researchers
...tereocilia, actin-filled rods on the sound-sensing hair cells of the inner ear. A defect in myosin VI resu... concept: think of the palm of an open hand as the hair cell and the fingers as the stereocilia. Myosin VI has two legs as well as a tail, which can bind to...Hair dye use increases risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Yale researchers have found that lifetime users of hair coloring products have an increased risk of develo...hool of Medicine. "Women who used darker permanent hair coloring products for more than 25 years showed the highest increased risk. We also found that the r...Rare disease endemic in South America is model for studying autoimmunity
...ing in El Bagre have mercury in their skin, nails, hair and urine. The acidic soil of El Bagre is naturally rich in minerals, metalloids and trace elements. However mercury, which has been shown in the laboratory to trigger an autoimmune response in animals with the right genetics, is present because it'...Large-scale analysis of women with androgen excess: thorough treatment can reduce symptoms
...of symptoms including acne, weight gain, excessive hair growth (hirsutism), menstrual dysfunction, and infertility. Hirsutism the growth of coarse hair in patterns similar to those of men has long been considered the key marker for androgen excess. Ph...Pioneering implants for deaf people
...ess is caused by problems with the sound-detecting hair cells in the cochlea in the ear. Cochlear implants bypass the hair cells and stimulate the auditory nerve directly. But they cannot help people with a damaged cochlea ...UB, military collaborate on design, testing of first drug to prevent noise-induced hearing loss
... radicals. These rogue molecules kill the delicate hair cells of the inner ear, which convert energy from ...ry audio stimuli to the brain's hearing center. As hair cells die, hearing diminishes. Henderson began working with Kopke to investigate ways to make hair ...UCLA teams with Drew to provide cancer care
... even bringing them wigs when treatments result in hair loss. Gonzales said she's excited about the new partnership program and the experimental treatments that will be available for patients there. "There are a lot of Spanish-speaking people here that really need help," said Gonzales, who was treated wit...ACP publishes 'Medical Meanings,' second edition
...pressions such as hangnail, under the weather, and hair of the dog. Hangnail, Dr. Haubrich writes, " has ...bite of a dog would heal more quickly if a tuft of hair taken from the attacking dog was embedded in the open wound. There is no evidence this actually work...Monkeys consciously control a robot arm using only brain signals
...rodes -- each smaller than the diameter of a human hair -- into the frontal and parietal lobes of the brains of two female rhesus macaque monkeys. They implanted 96 electrodes in one animal and 320 in the other. The researchers reported their technology of implanting arrays of hundreds of electrodes and r...