Stephanie Gardner

Oct 7, 2024 | webmd.com | Hallie Levine |Stephanie Gardner

Elbow psoriasis is a chronic skin condition that causes areas of thickened, inflamed, red skin on your elbows. It can also develop on other parts of your body, like your scalp or knees. It’s thought that about 3% of the population has psoriasis. Kids and teens can get psoriasis, but it happens mainly in adults. It may look unpleasant, but it’s not dangerous or contagious. The most common type of psoriasis on the elbows is plaque psoriasis.

Aug 31, 2024 | webmd.com | Hedy Marks |Stephanie Gardner

If you are an exercise enthusiast, or if you are overweight, you have probably experienced skin chafing, the annoying and often painful result of skin rubbing against skin or clothing. Chafing can occur anywhere on your body, but the thighs, groin, underarms, and nipples are particularly vulnerable. There are a number of ways to prevent skin chafing, so don't let it slow you down. In order to prevent skin chafing, you must decrease the amount of friction to your skin.

Mar 22, 2024 | webmd.com | Stephanie Gardner

With age comes wisdom. Unfortunately, age spots, wrinkles, and saggy skin come with it, too. The aging you see in the mirror comes from forces inside and outside your body. Inside, genetics and a drop in your levels of the hormones estrogen and testosterone can affect skin moisture, elasticity, and thickness, says Larry Fan, MD, a plastic surgeon in San Francisco. As you get older, your skin cells also have a harder time repairing themselves.

Sep 17, 2023 | webmd.com | Paul Frysh |Stephanie Gardner

Regular bathing is obviously a healthy habit. So an extra shower a day may seem like more of a good thing. After all, showers clean your body. And cleaner is better, right? Well, not necessarily. It might be too much of a good thing. You want to shower enough to keep yourself clean (and not too smelly), but not so much that you dry out your skin and strip off its natural protective layer. So how often should you bathe?

Feb 17, 2023 | webmd.com | Stephanie Gardner |Alyson Powell Key

Historically, racial and ethnic minorities in the United States have lived with long-term disparities in both access to health care and the quality of care that they receive. These differences are improving thanks to laws like the Affordable Care Act. Still, some minority groups have higher rates of illness and death from many health conditions than white people. And they’re still more likely to face prejudice and other barriers to health care.