White, Kate
The exposure to the healing rays has become a common form of light therapy against bacterial infections, as well as wound infections, psoriasis, acne vulgaris, rickettsia, depression, jaundice, and a host of other diseases. To date, studies continue to explore the application of rays, from ...
Psoriasis is a T-lymphocyte-mediated chronic inflammatory disorder involving the skin and joints. Nearly 3.5% of the population has been diagnosed to have psoriasis. In a dermatology department, almost one-third of psoriasis patients are in the pediatric age group. With an annual prevalence of up...
Schematic of emmetropia and axial myopia.AIn an emmetropic eye, parallel rays of a distant object are focused on the retina.BWhen an eye is tasked to focus on a near object, without accomodation, the image of the object is focused behind the retina.CAccommodation can bring forward the imag...
dependent process, previtamin D3 is immediately converted to vitamin D. Excess UVB rays transform previtamin D3 into biologically inactive metabolites, tachysterol and lumisterol. Vitamin D2 is plant derived, produced exogenously by irradiation of ergosterol, and enters the circulation through diet [...
If you are Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American or have other skin of color, you have more natural protection from the harmful UVA (aging) and UVB (burning) rays of the sun than people with light skin. And that’s good news! However, having more protection doesn’t make you immune...
The multiple and partly heterogeneous aspects of radiopharmaceuticals and -modulators can be separated into three major fields: (1) Radiopharmaceuticals are used in nuclear medicine as tracers for diagnostics and therapy of many diseases. Technetium 99m (Tc-99m) serves as gamma-rays-emitting tracer...
Less Than Full Protection; Most Sunscreens Do Only Half the Job, Blocking Unsafe UVB Rays But Not Skin-Damaging UVA. Can We Get Better Cover? [Correction 7/14/05]Jennifer Huget