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"DEVELOPMENTS IN DERMATOLOGY.." Medical cosmetics are safer too, thanks to today's technology and new research. For example, dermatologists have new cosmetic ways of filling in skin defects and wrinkles. They inject collagen (cowhide protein) into a big wrinkle to puff it up. There is always the danger of an allergic reaction, but less if the skin is tested first. Doctors place chances at fewer than one in 5,000 that anything will go awry. As to hair loss, in addition to hair transplants, a drug used to treat high blood pressure -Minoxidyl -if applied as a poultice, actually grows hair. Only a third of a group of men who used it had significant hair growth; an additional third had a fine blond fuzz, and the final third experienced no hair growth. For large purple patches of skin -port wine stain -dermatologists can lighten them with a laser. They also now use powerful hormones to clear up eczema, psoriasis, and dermatitis in days rather than months. Other help includes these treatments: An approach called PUVA clears the patchy, flaky skin of intractable psoriasis. The patient takes the medicine psoralen (P) and then stands naked under ultraviolet (UV) light in the A-band (A) wavelengths. This is reserved only for the worst cases; PUVA can increase your risk of skin cancer. The drug Etretinate, a cousin of Accutane, is under investigation here. In Europe, it's used to treat psoriasis. Oral drugs treat skin infected by bacteria, viruses, or fungi. Hospitalization once was the rule for patients with cellulitis -a bacterial infection of the skin and its under-layers. Now an antibiotic called cephalosporin effects a cure just days after a doctor's treatment.Acyclovir, taken orally or in a salve, eases herpes virus symptoms. Ketoconazole, a new anti-fungus agent taken orally, cures deep fungal infections. *1/266/5* |
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