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Make sure you use an acetone-free nail polish remover, as well as a nail polish that is free of formaldehyde and toluene.

Rochester, N.Y. - Ivanhoe Newswire reports that a University of Rochester Medical Center study links the ApoE-4 gene with the herpes simplex 1 (HSV-1) virus, which is commonly associated with cold sores but also can travel to the brain.

Los Angeles - The Associated Press reports that a hand-held laser may be the cause of a recent Los Angeles office building fire that caused $200,000 in damage.

Washington - Reuters reports that pharmaceutical companies would have to pay $6.25 million in new fees next year to help fund a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of TV commercials for their products.

Bay St. Lous, Miss. - A type of staph infection may be causing skin lesions and sores that have appeared on post-Katrina volunteer workers in southern Mississippi in recent months.

Washington - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ruled that the oral contraceptive YAZ can also be used by women to control moderate acne.

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The various types of this multi-etiologic disease can be categorized as septal, lobular or a combination of septal and lobular panniculitis.

National report - The Food and Drug Administration's approval process can seem mysterious to most physicians, who lack the time to study the process, experts say.

National report - Keep this in mind when bizarre cases show up - "Zebras are rare, but not everything is a horse," and, "Break down the systems causing hard-to-diagnose dermatologic conditions," ask questions, take time to diagnose - and don't be afraid to not know the answer the first day.

While the future for investors and savers is, as always, a bit cloudy, it's likely that sticking with the basics will continue to be your best bet.

Las Vegas - Complications are bound to occur in varying degrees of severity regardless of which laser a physician uses in cosmetic interventions.

It is the TCA application, and not self-healing processes, that activates the dermal fibroblasts and results in significant morphologic changes.

Q What is the mechanism of action of lip plumping cosmetics?

Berlin - Fine-tuning the botulinum toxin injection techniques and tailoring these techniques to each patient individually requires attention to certain details, and is the key to successful outcomes, according to one expert.

Post-treatment, the Masson's trichrome stain demonstrated that the collagen fibers significantly took up more blue stain, and the elastic fiber stain clearly showed an increase in the number of elastic fibers.

Cancer researchers are trying to develop multi-antigen vaccines in order to increase the efficacy of the vaccine.

National report - A bizarre case involving an apparent cyst will always hold a couple of lessons for William Philip Werschler, M.D.

Although dermatologists are very familiar with PXE, they're likely to see only a handful of cases during their careers.

Because the condition is rare, there is no one standard medication that is administered.

San Diego - The hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), also known as the mother of all hormones, is the precursor of androgens and estrogens and is tagged by some physicians as a wonder drug when supplements are taken for certain disease states and in certain doses.

National report - Cephalexin (Keflex, Dista and generics) and cefdinir (Omnicef) are both well-tolerated when administered orally for infection prophylaxis in patients undergoing in-office cutaneous surgical procedures.

The various types of this multi-etiologic disease can be categorized as septal, lobular or a combination of septal and lobular panniculitis.

Inflammatory lesion counts fell more than 70 percent and noninflammatory lesion counts had been reduced by about two-thirds in both groups.

Mr. Finkelstein and others talk about how it feels to be stared at and avoided. One man tells a story of getting into a pool and seeing everyone else get out.

The circumstances around this case are quite unusual, but the bottom line is that I had been called upon to justify my position of doing liposuction and an abdominoplasty on a youngster.

Numbers can mean many different things to many different people, and are used for many different purposes.

National report - As use of lidocaine for injectable local and topical anesthesia is increasing, dermatologists need to recognize that this amide anesthetic has the potential to cause allergic contact dermatitis, according to James Taylor, M.D., a dermatologist at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland.