Skin Disease Strikes Iraqi Children

At least 275 children in southern Iraq have been infected with a disfiguring skin disease, an outbreak some health officials are blaming on the war's devastating effect on the public health system.

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MUD-FIGHTING festival-goers have been struck with a nasty skin disease after getting down and dirty in a massive mud bath. Hundreds of people were hospitalised having caught the bug at the Boryeong Mud Festival in South Korea.

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A new skin disorder caused by use of games consoles has been identified by skin specialists. The condition, dubbed PlayStation palmar hidradenitis, is described in the British Journal of Dermatology.

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Scientists from the University of Portsmouth, England, are carrying out a study to find out whether installing a water-softener in the home might improve the symptoms of children with eczema.

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For 20 years, the warts studding Dede Kosawa's hands and feet multiplied and sprouted like gnarled roots.

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Black pepper could lead to better treatments for a disfiguring skin condition that affects about 1 percent of the world's population, British researchers said on Thursday.

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Blue Man: It's not easy being blue, "I tend to avoid public places." A man learns to cope with a treatment that may be turning his skin blue

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Karl Marx suffered from a skin disease that can cause severe psychological effects such as self-loathing and alienation, according to a British dermatologist.

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Administering a substance found in the cannabis plant can help the body s natural protective system alleviate an allergic skin disease (allergic contact dermatitis), an international group of researchers from Germany, Israel, Italy, Switzerland and the U.S. has found.

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Got Food Allergies?

Got Food Allergies? By: Lisa La Barre - Beverly Hills Nutritionist Understanding those nasty little allergies has become a way to look into our general health and what may be the answers. Some symptoms of allergic reactions can be...

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Many people don't know that cancer can be sexually transmitted. The Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is typically a harmless viral skin disease that goes away in a few years. But one in 10 cases do not.

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