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Almost everyone with a scalp has had this argument in the mirror. Is this dandruff, or is my …
A retinoid treats acne and the dark marks acne leaves behind, which almost nothing else does at once. …
A National Institutes of Health study reported that women who used chemical hair straighteners more than four times …
Skin lightening and brightening creams sit on a lot of bathroom shelves, and the reasons people reach for …
Stretch marks on Black skin do not follow the pink-to-silver arc nearly every stretch mark page describes. That …
Keratosis pilaris is the roughness on the backs of your arms that no lotion has ever fixed. On …
You have probably seen them on someone who raised you. Small dark bumps across the cheeks and temples …
A smooth, round bald patch that appeared over a few weeks, with normal-looking skin inside it and no …
On Black skin an allergic rash rarely looks like the pictures. It reads violet, gray-brown, or ashy, and …
On a Black scalp, psoriasis rarely looks like the salmon-pink plaque in the textbook. It reads violaceous, gray-brown, …
Sunscreen earns a daily place on Black skin, and the payoff is not the one the campaigns lead …
Darkening in the underarms, along the inner thighs, and under the breasts is one of the most common …
On Black skin the pimple lasts a week and the dark mark it leaves can last a year. …
On Black skin, tinea versicolor usually shows up as light patches rather than dark ones, because the yeast …
Raynaud's is taught as fingers turning white, then blue, then red. That sequence is hard to see on …
Sepsis is a time-critical emergency, and the clock that decides the outcome usually starts before anyone says the …
A foot ulcer is the step that comes before most leg amputations, and the window to save the …
Bacterial meningitis can kill within hours, and the classic triad of fever, stiff neck and confusion shows up …
Most ovarian cysts are ordinary, harmless, and gone within two menstrual cycles. What is worth knowing is which …
A colposcopy is the next step after an abnormal Pap or HPV test, an in-office exam that lets …
Acne keloidalis nuchae (AKN) is a chronic inflammatory condition at the back of the scalp and the nape …
Nine methods of birth control work well, and the right one depends on your body, your health history, …
If you have Medicaid, the state checks whether you still qualify at least once every 12 months, and …
A standard STI panel checks four infections and quietly leaves out herpes, trichomonas, and every site except the …
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