The Skin Cancer Foundation – Destination: Healthy Skin
Destination: Healthy SkinDestination: Healthy Skin, The Skin Cancer Foundation’s mobile skin cancer education and screening program concluded its second annual journey around the U.S. Local volunteer dermatologists conducted 1,243 free skin cancer screenings aboard the Foundation’s 38-foot Destination: Healthy Skin RV. Program participants also received The Skin Cancer Foundation’s educational materials and Wal …
Destination: Healthy Skin
Special Focus: Aesthetics – JDD September issue
Aesthetics Special Focus September JDDHave you received your September JDD issue yet?  The Special Focus of this month's issue is Aesthetics.  Below are the highlights for the September issue! Highlights: Topical EGF is a safe, noninvasive, and effective in A Randomized, Double- Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Split-Face Study of the Efficacy of Topical Epidermal Growth Factor for the Treatment of Melasma. The fourth in a ser …
Aesthetics Special Focus September JDD
Acanthosis Nigricans Mimicking Melasma
Acanthosis NigricansCase Report and Pearls for Accurate Diagnosis – An Interview with the Author During the 2018 Skin of Color Seminar Series (now the Skin of Color Update), approximately twenty posters could be seen hanging in the poster viewing area.  Each of these posters highlights novel and exciting research in skin of color. In one such poster, Dr. Monica Huynh and colleagues presented a case of the skin co …
Acanthosis Nigricans
Basic Science of Skin – Boards Fodder
Basic Science of SkinAll of the most commonly used general dermatology texts start out with the basic science of skin, with good reason. Understanding the function of important molecules and molecular structures is key to understanding many dermatologic disorders.  For that reason, the correlation between pathophysiology and clinical findings make this topic a favorite for second and third-order questions on the b …
Basic Science of Skin