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 [...]

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 [...]

There are many factors that go into why you see more older people with skin cancer than younger people. One of these is because most of the damage caused by the sun’s UV rays is long term damage. Older people a lot of the time are paying the price for what they did earlier in [...]