A new guideline aims to help Canadian physicians, nurses and pharmacists treat children and adults with acne, a disease that can severely affect quality of life.

A groundbreaking wound dressing for burns that changes color in response to infection could help in the fight against global antibiotic resistance.

US regulators have approved a drug combination - vemurafenib (Zelboraf) and cobimetinib (Cotellic) - for advanced melanoma that shows great promise in extending patients' lives.

Study confirms 'intermediate' disease stage between benign moles and malignancy.

In this article, find out about different types of burns and how to treat children who experience them, along with measures that can be taken to help prevent burns occurring.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Cotellic (cobimetinib) to be used in combination with vemurafenib to treat advanced melanoma that has spread to other parts of the body or can't...

Children with the rare genetic disease Epidermolysis Bullosa face a lifetime of pain due to constant blistering of their skin and other body surfaces.

Washington State University researchers for the first time have discovered how electrical stimulation works for the treatment of bacterial infections, paving the way for a viable alternative to...

By licking a wound it heals faster -- this is not simply popular belief, but scientifically proven. Our saliva consists of water and mucus, among other things, and the mucus plays an important role.

Once head lice have attached themselves to hair follicles, they can deftly evade detection and are therefore hard to kill.