• posted: Feb. 19, 2016

         The risk of antibiotic resistance in treating Acne and the "killing off"  of the so-called  "good germs" in our body's gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts-which in itself can lead Read More

• posted: Nov. 04, 2015

There are several methods of lightening dark skin spots. However, anyone with hyper pigmented spots on  the skin should first have them checked by their dermatologist to rule out either precancer Read More

• posted: Nov. 04, 2015

A drug with the generic name tofacitnib citrate , which is in a class of drugs called  Janus kinase inhibitors  which prevent the production of cytokines which mediate  inflammation, is being used Read More

• posted: Aug. 18, 2015

           Does chronic moderate to severe inflammation on the outside of the body (ie,the skin) indicate significant inflammation on the inside of the body (ie,the internal organs Read More

• posted: Aug. 15, 2015

The following list of medications is certainly not all-inclusive since many different classes of prescription and over-the-counter drugs can make the skin more sensitive to ultraviolet rays. Some of the more popular photosensitizing Read More

• posted: May 30, 2015

                In the past clinicians used the thickness or depth (Breslow's thickness) of a malignant melanoma as well  as the number and rate of Read More

• posted: Apr. 04, 2015

Mycoses  fungoides lymphoma is  a T cell (a type of white blood cell) lymphoma of the skin which often masquerades for many years as a  patchy or plaque like reddish and scaling rash Read More

• posted: Mar. 14, 2015

             Melasma  which is also called  the mask of pregnancy or cholasma is both sun-exposed and  hormone related and usually appears as a tan or dark Read More

• posted: Feb. 15, 2015

Many of us have had the uncomfortable itching experience of hives or wheals(the medical term is urticaria)in our lives. Hives result from the release  of a body chemical called histamine from Read More

• posted: Nov. 30, 2014

              Most people beleve that skin cancer  is only caused by too much sun exposure resulting in  many bad sunburns. However,skin cancer can also be Read More

• posted: Nov. 11, 2014

                           Although  I have diagnosed and treated literally thousands of skin cancers over the years,in my experience  it has been Read More

• posted: Sep. 12, 2014

                   Recent clinical investigations have  suggested a link between psoriasis and an increased risk of several malignancies including non-Hodgkins lymphoma,non-melanoma skin cancer,and cancers Read More

• posted: Jun. 20, 2014

                     Did you know that an estimated 76,000 Americans(with more than half of them men) will be diagnosed with malignant melanoma skin Read More

• posted: May 11, 2014

                  Most people know that shingles or herpes zoster occurs in people who had chicken pox (varicella)  in the past and can occur Read More

• posted: Apr. 30, 2014
• antifungals,  corticosteroids,  skin itching,  skin burning,  groin rash,  extramammary Paget's disease,  apocrine gland,  breast cancer,  adenocarcinoma,  skin carcinoma,  cytokeratin 20,  HER-2,  lymphatic system.

                A few years ago one of my male patients presented with a groin rash of several months duration which was unresponsive to various Read More

• posted: Apr. 13, 2014

                                                         Merkel Cell carcinoma(MCC) Read More