Summer is the UK's best-loved season. It's easy to see why, with the warmer, sunnier weather it brings. But the temperature ...

With much of our readership dealing with colder weather, patients may be complaining of pruritus hiemalis, better known as winter itch or xerosis, a condition first described by Louis A. Duhring ...

“Margarita burn” is a nice name for an annoying summer skin rash. It's a reference to lime juice, a key ingredient in the ...

It is known as the sunshine vitamin as the majority of a person's vitamin D intake comes from direct sunlight on the skin ...

A s the temperature outside rises, so does my skin irritation––and the last couple of weeks' sunshine have left me with red, ...

To perform a skin biopsy, your dermatologist removes a small bit of affected skin so that it can be examined under a microscope. While having answers to these questions and test results is helpful, it ...

If there is any truth to the nursery rhyme “April showers bring May flowers,” you can get ready for allergy season and eczema ...

Atopic dermatitis, more commonly known as eczema, causes itchy, dry, inflamed skin. The condition is more common in children, although it can occur in people of any age.

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Also called neurodermatitis. A chronic, itchy inflammation of the skin that is more common between ages 30 and 50, and usually affects more women than men. It's a result of chronic scratching of a ...