Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WAILEA, Hawaii — Treating macular dermal hyperpigmentation conditions requires a multi-pronged approach, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with skin of color have unique challenges when it comes to treating psoriasis. Dyschromia and ...

A new review compares topical, laser, and microneedling based stretch marks treatments, highlighting combination therapies that improve striae appearance across Fitzpatrick skin types with better ...

Researchers in France have discovered that, though a tattoo may be forever, the skin cells that carry the tattoo pigment are not. Instead, the researchers say, the cells can pass on the pigment to new ...

Hydroquinone has long been used as the gold standard treatment for hyperpigmentation, yet despite its effectiveness, it has been associated with a severe adverse reaction known as exogenous ochronosis ...

Hyperpigmentation causes patches of skin to become darker than the surrounding skin. It occurs when the skin produces excess melanin, the pigment that gives skin its color. Hyperpigmentation is very ...

Green tattoo pigment is taken up by dermal macrophages (left). The pigment is released when these cells are killed (center) but, 90 days later, is taken back up into new macrophages that have replaced ...

A remarkable new study has provided a novel insight into why tattoo ink stays so permanently in a person's skin. Instead of being a static process, it was found that cells in the dermis are constantly ...

If the skin regenerates itself every couple of weeks, then why do tattoos last for years? Sure, we know that tattoo ink is inserted into the layer right beneath the outermost layer of skin, but even ...

FOR many years it has been believed that the cutaneous pigment cell system of the so-called lower vertebrates—fishes and amphibians—is mainly a dermal one. As an effector system its function is ...