A doctor explains how changes in skin color, texture, or appearance can reveal underlying health issues and signal early signs of disease.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee met Friday to figure out ways to make pulse oximeters more accurate when doing readings on darker skin both in hospitals and at home, after research ...
Octopuses have excellent camouflage. They trick predators by increasing or decreasing skin pigment to change to the same color as rocks. Inspired by octopuses, scientists have developed a synthetic ...
When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong went to hospital with an enlarged prostate, doctors were startled to see that his skin—and even the whites of his eyes—had turned silver-gray. A deeper ...
Today in wacky beauty claims going viral on TikTok: eating carrots can give you the same results as self-tanner. The conversation all started when a TikTok user claimed that she'd been eating three ...