The growing evidence that inflammation is a primary cause of aging skin supports ongoing efforts to study targeted ...

From babyhood to adulthood, the bacteria and fungi on your skin help train your immune system—but when that balance tips, chronic inflammation can follow. This new review reveals how and why. Study: ...

Long-term (chronic) inflammation in your body has been linked with several types of cancer, in addition to other serious conditions. One recent study found that 20% of cancer-related deaths were ...

A Johns Hopkins Medicine study involving a dozen people with the inflammatory skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which mostly affects skin folds, is believed to be the first to provide ...

"It was very interesting to see—we thought the testing [rate] would be higher. Whenever we start a biologic, there is a battery of tests that we do, and we monitor patients very closely, in line with ...

Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? But what if we told you that itchiness and redness were just the tip of the ...

Rosacea, a chronic and often misunderstood skin condition, is marked by persistent facial redness, visible blood vessels, and, in some cases, inflammatory bumps. The causes of rosacea are not yet ...

Winter is notorious for wreaking havoc on the skin. Thanks to dropping temperatures, whipping winds and spending more time ...

A new Johns Hopkins Medicine study shows metabolites (molecular byproducts) of endocrine-disrupting chemicals shed by plastics are present in the skin of people with hidradenitis suppurativa, a ...