Trends in Use of Prescription Skin Lightening Creams

Mercury Levels in Locally Manufactured Mexican Skin-Lightening Creams

Mercury is considered one of the most toxic elements for plants and animals. Nevertheless, in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, whitening creams containing mercury are being manufactured and purchased, despite their obvious health risks. Due to the mass distribution of these products, this can be considered a global public health issue. In Mexico, these products are widely available in p...

Beastly Beauty Products: Exposure to Inorganic Mercury in Skin-Lightening Creams

Understanding Branches Out Insights into PBDE Impacts on Brain Development Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants and their hydroxylated metabolites are structurally similar to thyroid hormone. A detailed study now provides one of the most insightful assessments to date of how environmentally relevant levels of PBDEs may impair brain development by interfering with thyroid hormon...

Barrier creams for skin breakdown

Debbie Flynn and Sally Williams examine how moisture and pressure can cause skin to break down, how barrier creams can help the skin to heal and a new barrier system. Nurses have a major role to play in assessing and preventing skin breakdown. It is essential to risk assess all patients to identify those most likely to be vulnerable. Incontinence poses particular risk factors as both urine and ...

Liposomes in skin creams don?t work

Trends in the use of prescription antibiotics: NHANES 1999-2012.

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were: to examine trends in the use of prescription antibiotics overall and by population subgroups between 1999 and 2012; and to examine trends in the use of categories of antibiotics and individual antibiotics. METHODS Use of antibiotics was examined among 71 444 participants in the nationally representative National Health and Nutrition Examination Su...