News tagged with skin lesions

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A new high-resolution method for imaging below the skin using a liquid lens

University of Rochester optics professor Jannick Rolland has developed an optical technology that provides unprecedented images under the skin's surface. The aim of the technology is to detect and examine ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

The Medical Minute: The worry with warts

Common warts are harmless skin lesions that are usually found on the hands or soles of the feet, the latter referred to as plantar warts. Warts have a fleshy and hard feel to them, can be associated with skin thickening, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Treating cancer with light: New LED device may help advance photodynamic therapy

Can skin cancer be treated with light? Scientists at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), believe so. They're exploring new ways to image cancerous lesions using LEDs that might advance a technique for treating ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Skin lesion leads to more cancer types than once believed

Actinic keratoses are sun-damaged rough patches or lesions on the skin — often pink and scaly — that doctors have long believed can turn into a form of skin cancer known as squamous cell carcinoma.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Welsh shingles drug set for final hurdle

A new Welsh-developed drug to help alleviate the suffering of shingles could move a step closer for patients if the final stage of testing is given the go-ahead.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Fur loss, lesions reported in Beaufort Sea polar bears

Research scientists working for the U.S. Geological Survey report that some Alaska polar bears are losing their fur.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists learn why even treated genital herpes sores boost the risk of HIV infection

New research helps explain why infection with herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes, increases the risk for HIV infection even after successful treatment heals the genital skin sores and breaks that ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

New study of psoriatic cells could fire up the study of inflammation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psoriasis is one of humanity’s oldest know diseases and one of the more widespread, affecting 2 percent of the U.S. population. But it remains largely a mystery. New work identifies markers ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The evolution of melanoma diagnosis: 25 years beyond the ABCDs

Twenty-five years after publishing the mnemonic "ABCD" to facilitate the early diagnosis of melanoma, the group who came up with that moniker says early detection remains a key factor in lowering mortality from malignant ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US probes mystery disease killing Arctic seals

US scientists are hoping to uncover answers behind a mysterious disease that has emerged in Arctic seal populations, causing skin lesions, lethargy and death, officials said Friday.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Different paths to drug resistance in Leishmania

Two remarkable discoveries were today revealed by researchers into genome analysis of Leishmania parasites. These results uncovered a surprising level of variation at the genome structure level.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Special ultrasound accurately identifies skin cancer

High-frequency ultrasound with elastography can help differentiate between cancerous and benign skin conditions, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Heat therapy shown effective in treating cutaneous leishmaniasis among US soldiers in Iraq

A single session of heat therapy using the ThermoMed device appears to be as effective as a 10-day intravenous course of sodium stibogluconate (Pentostam) for the treatment of Leishmania major skin lesions, according to a n ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sand fly barcoding in Panama reveals Leishmania strain and its potential control

In the first survey of sand flies in Panama to use genetic barcoding, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Gorgas Memorial Laboratories identified 20 sand fly species from Barro Colorado ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0