News and Features Related to Acne

1. The Clear-Skin Makeover
   

   By Jenny Bailly Fighting pimples and wrinkles? Here’s how to give your old routine a grown-up overhaul for radiant results. Like high school pop quizzes and awkward prom dates, pimples are supposed to be distant bad memories. If only. But these days, even moms of teens are battling blemishes — and w

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2. Spring Cleaning: How to Pamper Your Skin
   

   As the days get longer and temperatures begin to climb, off go the sweaters and boots and on go the shorts and sandals. But while your spirit may be singing the praises of spring, it's also likely your skin is still crying out with the winter blues -- dry, scaly, rough, spots on heels, knees, and el

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3. Tea Tree Oil Treats Skin Problems
   

   Beth Seigenthaler stumbled across a promotional display for tea tree oil in her local health food store while she was suffering from a particularly bad episode of fever blisters. Having had the condition since childhood, she figured she might as well try the product, which claimed to help a variety

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4. Acne Treatments: Old vs. New
   

   From occasional breakouts in the teenage years to chronic, ongoing battles that last clear into adulthood, acne is one of the most common -- if not the most frustrating -- of all skin conditions. And while there have always been a variety of treatment options available, more recently some have been

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5. The Mind-Skin Connection
   

   Any time Amanda feels nervous, she breaks out all over her 13-year-old face. Jeremy often feels so sorry for himself that he has eczema that he shuts himself off from the world during bad flares. And the only way that Kim can stop her obsessive thoughts is by pulling out her hair. In these and many

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6. Acne ... Again?
   

   It's not fair. Just when you've successfully navigated the ravages of adolescence on your skin, you wake up and find acne . What can you do? As most dermatologists will tell you, "bad" skin isn't just for teens. The good news is that new treatments are now available to help fight adult acne. The acn

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7. Oily Skin: Solutions That Work -- No Matter What Your Age
   

   Although most folks associate oily skin with the teen years, age is only part of the story. Indeed, while problems don't usually begin until around puberty, for many people,  oily skin persists long after the senior prom has faded into memory. For some, oily skin can last a lifetime.  "If you have o

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8. FDA Panel: Ease Accutane Rules
   

   Aug. 1, 2007 – A program to prevent birth defects from the acne drug Accutane should be more flexible, an FDA advisory panel said today. Accutane is a powerful drug that works against some of the hardest-to-treat forms of acne. But the drug also causes birth defects. Women who take the drug must tak

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9. Light Plus Suction Promising for Acne
   

   April 12, 2007 -- A novel approach to treating acne, which combines light therapy with skin suction, shows promise in an early trial. In the small study, 15 patients with severe acne experienced significant improvements in their acne lesions after as few as two to three weekly treatments, researcher

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10. Stress Makes Teen Acne Worse
    

    March 7, 2007 – The largest study ever conducted on acne and stress levels confirms what many have suspected for years: Stress can make acne worse among teenagers. Researchers found teenagers who were under high levels of stress were 23% more likely to have increased acne severity. Stress has long b

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