Cutaneous disease is a frequent cause of morbidity in the homeless. Several skin conditions, both infectious and noninfectious, have been described in the homeless population including trauma ...

Chronic skin conditions typically aren’t curable, but they can be managed with medication and by paying close attention to your lifestyle. Learn more about symptoms, treatments, and ways to feel ...

Skin disorders affect the largest organ of your body, the skin. Such disorders may be temporary or permanent, benign or life-threatening and painless or painful. Some common skin disorders like ...

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The burden of skin disease is a multidimensional concept that encompasses psychological, social and financial consequences of the skin disease on the patients, their families and on society.

Skin diseases are pathologic conditions that affect the body's surfaces (also called the integument), including skin, hair, nails and associated glands. They can involve all layers of the skin and ...

Causes: Butterfly disease refers to a group of rare, inherited diseases that cause the skin to be very fragile and to blister easily. There are around 30 subtypes of butterfly disease, and these are ...

The mission of the Skin Diseases Research Center (SDRC) is to add value to our investigators through strength of focus on uniting basic and translational skin science. The vision of the SDRC is: The ...

A rare and potentially fatal skin infection with nightmarish outcomes may soon have a cure.

And growing evidence suggests that the skin microbiome plays an important role in regulating our immune system and could be linked to chronic conditions that aren’t on the skin, such as asthma ...