Word: dermatologist
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...Moonwalk, in which he admitted to having had his nose removed -- sorry, remodeled -- and a chin cleft made. And he denied he bleached his skin to its current Kabuki whiteness as a renunciation of his ethnic roots: "I am proud to be a black American." He said (and his dermatologist has confirmed) he suffers from a "disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin . . . It's in my family. . . . Using makeup evens it out, 'cause it makes blotches on the skin." The disease, vitiligo, is "more visible with those with black or brown skin," says Dr. Madhu Pathak, a professor...
...dermatologist may, however, be in violation of a two-year old Medical School conflict of interest policy for accepting payments from drug companies for appearances, an official there said yesterday...
Retin A, a drug used for more than 20 years to fight acne, may not yet be approved for the treatment of wrinkles, but according to one Harvard dermatologist, there's no reason it shouldn...
Higginson Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology Howard Green may also have a conflict of interest of the type investigated by the committee. In 1986, Green founded BioSurface Technology, a company that cultures patients' skin cells for grafting back onto their skin after surgery. While most of the dermatologist's pioneering research on the technique was conducted while he was at MIT, Green now holds a post at Harvard...
...seven-page report, with accompanying editorial, a team of scientists led by University of Arizona dermatologist Norman Levine told how, in a randomized, placebo-controlled experiment, visible tanning was induced in 15 healthy men after 10 injections of a potent hormone called MSH (melanocyte- stimulating hormone). The tans lasted nearly nine weeks with no immediate side effects beyond a brief flushing sensation and a mild stomachache...