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Postin­flam­ma­to­ry hyper­pig­men­ta­tion and melas­ma may have sim­i­lar appear­ances on your skin but the diag­noses are dif­fer­ent. Our Der­ma­tol­o­gists explain each skin con­di­tion and dif­fer­ent treat­ment options.

One of the choic­es you will make as a prospec­tive par­ent involves whether or not to test for genet­ic con­di­tions in your devel­op­ing baby. There are many choic­es, as well as many mis­con­cep­tions about genet­ic testing.

It is nor­mal for you to expe­ri­ence changes in your vision through­out your life, and as you age, your risk of devel­op­ing cer­tain eye con­di­tions increas­es as well. For most peo­ple, changes in their eyes begin in their ear­ly to mid-40s and will con­tin­ue into their ear­ly 60s. The most com­mon visu­al change in old­er adults is dif­fi­cul­ty see­ing things close by, pri­mar­i­ly when read­ing or work­ing on a com­put­er. This is a con­di­tion called pres­by­opia, a nor­mal change in your eye­’s abil­i­ty to focus. This hap­pens when the lens of your eye los­es some of its flex­i­bil­i­ty, mak­ing it more dif­fi­cult for your eyes to shift eas­i­ly from objects far away to objects near­by. Typ­i­cal symp­toms include dif­fi­cul­ty read­ing print mate­ri­als includ­ing books, news­pa­pers or menus, espe­cial­ly in dim light. You may find your­self hold­ing objects away from you in order to see more clear­ly. Once it devel­ops, pres­by­opia will con­tin­ue to progress as you age. Indi­vid­u­als who already wear glass­es or con­tact lens­es may need to switch to bifo­cal or mul­ti­fo­cal lens­es for help with near and far dis­tances. Those who haven’t need­ed con­tacts or glass­es in the past may need to use read­ing glass­es mov­ing forward.

Sprains in any joint of the body hap­pen when a lig­a­ment is stretched or torn. For ankles, this typ­i­cal­ly occurs dur­ing sports activ­i­ties or a mis­step while walking/​running on uneven sur­faces. Learn the best way to man­age the pain from a sprained ankle.

So, why do hives occur? It turns out that there are many dif­fer­ent caus­es. For­tu­nate­ly, most cas­es are rel­a­tive­ly mild con­di­tions that are not life threat­en­ing. But, there are a few instances where urticaria, or the hives, rep­re­sents a seri­ous under­ly­ing med­ical condition.

Each year, more than half a mil­lion chil­dren in the Unit­ed States under­go surgery to remove their ton­sils and ade­noids due to recur­ring sore throats, enlarged ton­sils or ade­noids or fre­quent infec­tions, espe­cial­ly those that cause oth­er symp­toms like obstruc­tive sleep apnea or dif­fi­cul­ty breathing.

Accord­ing to the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety, skin can­cer accounts for near­ly half of all can­cers in the Unit­ed States and is the most com­mon of all can­cers. The most aggres­sive and dan­ger­ous type of skin can­cer is Melanoma.

These days, the pres­sure is on for young ath­letes to stay at the top of their game and play more fre­quent­ly at an ear­li­er age. We under­stand it can tough for par­ents to know when rest and relief is necessary.

The for­ma­tion of vari­cose veins is one of the more com­mon vein issues. Our Vas­cu­lar Surgery depart­ment dis­cuss­es sev­er­al treat­ment options avail­able for vari­cose veins depend­ing on the size, sever­i­ty and loca­tion of the vein.

Duly Aes­thet­ics offers miraDry® a break­through, non­in­va­sive pro­ce­dure for treat­ment of hyper­hidro­sis, or exces­sive under­arm per­spi­ra­tion. The miraDry® pro­ce­dure uses clin­i­cal­ly proven tech­nol­o­gy to non-inva­sive­ly elim­i­nate sweat glands in the underarm.