Quietly brilliant and endlessly patient, Dr Bob Sarkany is one of the UK’s leading experts in photosensitive skin disorders. During his 16 years heading the Photodermatology Unit at St John’s ...

"In this study, we investigated the interplay between cigarette smoke, DNA damage and repair, focusing on the Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) protein Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group C (XPC)." BUFFALO, NY ...

People with xeroderma pigmentosum can severely burn within minutes of being in the sun and are thousands of times more likely to develop skin cancer than others. When you purchase through links on our ...

Freckles are small spots found on the skin that are typically harmless. They can appear suddenly due to exposure from ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun. Freckles are small spots that are ...

Many of the things that raise your chances for osteoporosis are things you can’t change, like your genes, your age, and your sex. But that doesn’t mean you can’t prevent the disease. The things you do ...

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Pol Dominguez, 11, is enjoying his summer holidays in Spain. But unlike most children his age, he does not spend his days at the beach or pool, instead staying indoors to avoid ultraviolet radiation ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Skin cancer is by far the ...

The United States is at a crossroads. We must choose between a future that entails poorer health outcomes, shorter lifespans, and increased health spending, or a sustained effort at transforming our ...

We look at promising, evidence-based efforts to prevent suicide. By Ellen Barry “The bridge is sealed up.” Last month, with those words, the general manager of the Golden Gate Bridge announced the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne bacterial infection. TB prevention measures involve stopping the bacteria from spreading and treating asymptomatic infection before it progresses to active disease.