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… tiny changes in posture that help you keep your balance. Skin pressure sensation gives you information about your … tiny changes in posture that help you keep your balance. Skin pressure sensation gives you information about your …
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… uses brief pulses of light to improve the look of the skin. It can remove the surface layer of skin and heat up deeper tissue to stimulate the growth of collagen. This is also called ablative skin resurfacing. Or it may injure the surface layer of skin …
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… A chemical peel is a treatment to improve the look of the skin. This process destroys the top layers of the skin in a controlled way so that new skin can grow in its place. There are different types of …
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… Dermabrasion is a treatment to improve the look of the skin. It uses a wire brush or a diamond wheel with rough … (called a burr or fraise) to remove the upper layers of the skin. The brush or burr spins quickly, taking off and levelling (abrading or planing) the top layers of the skin. This process injures or wounds the skin and causes it …
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… alba (say "pih-tih-RY-uh-sus AL-buh") is a common skin problem that causes round or oval patches of skin that look lighter than the rest of the skin. The patches may look pink or slightly scaly at first. …
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… of ultraviolet (UV) light to slow the rapid growth of new skin cells and to decrease inflammation. This is helpful in … , which causes inflammation and the rapid growth of skin cells. There are different types of UV light therapy. … used with psoralen. Psoralen is a medicine that makes your skin more sensitive to light. This treatment is called PUVA. …
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… cells. Tests include: Sputum cytology. Thoracentesis. Biopsy . Screening tests for lung cancer Screening tests … that the people around you want to support you, and asking for help isn't a sign of weakness. Tell them how they … that the people around you want to support you, and asking for help isn't a sign of weakness. Tell them how they …
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… a moisturizer to treat or prevent dry, rough, scaly, itchy skin and minor skin irritations (such as diaper rash, skin burns from radiation therapy). Emollients are …
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… is rosacea? Rosacea (say "roh-ZAY-shuh") is a very common skin disease that affects people over the age of 30. It … worse, talk to your doctor. Getting treatment can help your skin look and feel better. And it may keep your rosacea from … what causes rosacea. They know that something irritates the skin, but rosacea doesn't seem to be an infection caused by …
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… These ultraviolet rays are the main causes of damage to the skin from the sun. UVA and UVB rays affect the skin's sensitivity to sun exposure in different ways. UVA … all day and every day of the year Penetrates deep into skin layers Is 20 times more abundant than UVB rays Causes …
