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Small dirt, dust and soot par­ti­cles, as well as gas­es such as car­bon monox­ide and nitro­gen diox­ide, can harm and pre­ma­ture­ly age your skin. Skin does its best to act as a bar­ri­er to such envi­ron­men­tal fac­tors, how­ev­er, it is not com­plete­ly impen­e­tra­ble. Pol­lu­tion can break down the lipids and col­la­gen found in your skin, weak­en­ing its abil­i­ty to com­bat exter­nal fac­tors. When your skin’s bar­ri­er is bro­ken down, pol­lu­tants gain bet­ter access to it, mak­ing you more sus­cep­ti­ble to clogged pores, irri­ta­tion, rash­es, break­outs and pre­ma­ture fine lines and wrinkles.

Skin­care trends from 2019 have trick­led into the new decade, how­ev­er, only a few months into 2020 and there are already more to add to the list! Our board-cer­ti­fied der­ma­tol­o­gists and licensed estheti­cians offer you their expert advice on what skin­care trends to expect this year.

Car­di­ol­o­gist, Dr. Devin Patel, shares some ways you can stay heart-health con­scious dur­ing the COVID ‑19 pandemic.

Being diag­nosed with, treat­ed for and then sur­viv­ing can­cer can be a chal­leng­ing expe­ri­ence, both phys­i­cal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly. Dr. Stacey Feuer shares insights and ways sur­vivors can men­tal­ly thrive in survivorship.

Occu­pa­tions are not nec­es­sar­i­ly a paid job but can be con­sid­ered the dai­ly tasks we like to spend time doing. They are dif­fer­ent for every­one and often evolve over one’s life span. Some exam­ples of occu­pa­tions include golf, cro­chet­ing, bin­go, typ­ing, dress­ing and bathing. 

Bring­ing a new baby home is a cel­e­bra­to­ry time that unites fam­i­ly and friends; how­ev­er, the cur­rent pan­dem­ic can gen­er­ate increased appre­hen­sion and dis­com­fort. Drs. Mia Taormi­na and Don Sei­d­man pro­vide insight and guid­ance to help you intro­duce your new­born to loved one’s so you can ease your wor­ries and look for­ward to pre­cious moments ahead. 

Pso­ri­a­sis affects 100 mil­lion peo­ple world­wide, with about 150,000 new cas­es every year. There is no known cure for pso­ri­a­sis, but with dif­fer­ent treat­ments and lifestyle alter­ations, symp­toms may be relieved.

Do you work full-time? Are you also a full-time mom? For many women, find­ing time for per­son­al things you need to do can be dif­fi­cult. And whether you like it or not, vis­it­ing the doc­tor for your year­ly exam may be some­thing that gets pushed to the side when you are short on time. How­ev­er, your year­ly exam is impor­tant. Through reg­u­lar health screen­ings, your physi­cian can iden­ti­fy prob­lems at an ear­ly stage when they are most treat­able. A physi­cian per­form­ing a phys­i­cal exam can find things you don’t or can’t notice your­self. So make an appoint­ment, and get checked regularly!

The aver­age per­son sheds between 50 – 100 hairs per day. As you age, it is nor­mal to expe­ri­ence grad­ual thin­ning and break­age of hair.

With the new year in full swing, many of us are begin­ning changes we would like to make. Obe­si­ty Med­i­cine Physi­cian, Dr. Katie Rosen­feld, shares tips to sup­port your loved ones with their health and well­ness goals.