Living in Shade

I wanted to talk today about a great program that are friends over at Bethesda Skincare are offering right now. There doing something to support people with cancer that I think is a great idea. It shows just how much they care and I believe is a win win for everyone involved.
Bethesda Skincare is a [...]

Some good news for wine lovers out there, a study released this summer that shows that wine may help alleviate some of the side effects of radiation therapy. The study, done by an Italian medical university, claims that a glass of red wine before undergoing treatment helps them better tolerate the treatment and reduces the [...]

Our medical industry in this country is constantly searching for new ways to combat diseases. Medicine and pharmaceuticals after all is big business and while a lot of this is motivated by money, its still nice when new advances are found in our attempt to stamp out disease. One of the biggest ones out there [...]

When you think of protecting yourself from the sun its almost always in regards to protecting yourself from skin cancer and damage from the UV ray’s. That however is not the only time when you have to think about your exposure to the sun.
Today I wanted to talk about the reaction that certain medications have [...]

This month Rhode Island Hospital dermatologist Martin Weinstock MD PhD received a $1 million 2 year Team Science grant from the Melanoma Research Alliance. Dr. Weinstock received this grant to serve as principal investigator in developing a training program for primary care physicians to improve melanoma screening in primary care. Your primary care doctor is [...]