Melanoma is most common in light-skinned people, but it can also afflict those with darker pigment. Finding out why would help to explain the disease's origins. When Jacqueline 'Jackie' Smith was 19, ...

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My previous blog post ("Vitamin D Is Essential for Human Reproduction") discussed the “sunshine vitamin” and emphasized the impacts of deficiency on reproductive health. But this topic is too big for ...

Radiotherapy research Jacqueline Andreozzi, medical physicist at Moffitt Cancer Center, and colleagues are investigating how skin luminance imaging can mitigate the effect of skin pigmentation and ...

When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong went to hospital with an enlarged prostate, doctors were startled to see that his skin – and even the whites of his eyes – had turned silver-grey. A deeper ...