This month’s Patient Buzz includes warnings for consumers: Fake facial fillers for sale online. A recall of a popular at-home light therapy mask. An acne treatment promoted by a celebrity that may irritate the skin.
Be prepared for the questions your patients may ask by perusing this list of dermatology news from the consumer press:
- Allure: Fake facial fillers
- Allure: Scalp acne
- Bustle: 7 skin conditions more common in women
- Consumer Reports: How to read sunscreen labels
- Cosmopolitan:Do jade rollers work?
- Essence: Top tips to treat a sunburn
- Forbes: Virtual dermatologist app
- Fox News: Sun rashes
- Harper’s Bazaar: Dark circle fillers
- Harper’s Bazaar: Non-surgical eye-lifts
- Health: Pustular psoriasis
- Health/Yahoo! Lifestyle: Guttate psoriasis
- Health/Yahoo! Lifestyle: How to get rid of strawberry legs
- Health/Yahoo! Lifestyle: Scalp psoriasis
- HuffPost: Black people need to wear sunscreen
- HuffPost:Collagen banking
- INSIDER:Can makeup protect skin from the sun?
- INSIDER:Chrissy Teigen’s underarm Botox for sweating
- NBC News:Solutions to summer hair and skin challenges
- New Beauty:Dangers of DIY sunscreen
- New Beauty:Radiesse vs. Sculptra
- Real Simple:Fall skin care
- Real Simple/Yahoo!Lifestyle: Body wash vs. bar soap
- Refinery29:Glycolic acid peels
- Refinery29:How to treat acne scars on dark skin
- Refinery29: Laser treatments for black women
- Refinery29: Why aren’t there more black dermatologists?
- Refinery29: Why hyperpigmentation happens
- Refinery29/Yahoo! Lifestyle: Acral lentiginous melanoma
- SELF: 5 tips for healthy skin
- SELF:7 tips for sensitive skin
- SELF: How to tell if skin care products are noncomedogenic
- SELF: How to treat keratosis pilaris
- SELF: PHAs for sensitive skin
- SELF: Spirulina and other algae skin-care products
- Teen Vogue: Cautions against Bella Thorne’s acne treatment
- The Wall Street Journal: Do men and women need different skin care?
- TODAY:What does an SCC look like?
- Town & Country: Pimple turned out to be skin cancer
- USA Today: How to streamline a skin care routine
- Vogue:Are LED masks dangerous?
- Vogue: How to get rid of under eye bags
- Vogue: Skin benefits of vitamin C
- Vogue: Skin lightening popularity in Asia
- W: Perfect skin myths
- Well + Good: Hair questions for a dermatologist
- Women’s Health: How to get rid of milia
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