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As patients take on more financial responsibility for their healthcare, dermatologists are finding themselves in a challenging new role - being a commodity in a marketplace where patients shop for services. Success in this new environment requires your dermatology practice to retain its current patients, and attract new ones.

One of the most commonly used and most controversial products recommended by dermatologists is sunscreen. I would argue that sunscreens are also the most misunderstood and misused skincare products.

Dermatologist Robert Nossa, M.D., entered the lottery for the 2010 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, expecting that he wouldn’t win one of the coveted spots in the internationally acclaimed endurance race. He was wrong.

As a CPA with more than 20 years of experience and an attorney lecturer to CPA groups nationwide, we are always surprised how few physicians have gotten any advice or even direction on asset protection from their CPAs. Ask yourself: has your CPA helped you shield your assets from unnecessary exposure? Likely not.

This is a difficult time for anyone trying to build a portfolio of savings and investments capable of providing a financially secure retirement. According to the Center for Retirement Research, more than half of the baby boomer generation will not be financially prepared for retirement even if they work until the age of 65.

A skin issue one soldier battled while serving in Iraq is the inspiration behind a new no-water-required cleanser by Innovative Skincare.

Results of a new study suggest that the beta-blocker propranolol is effective in treating infantile hemangiomas of the head and neck, MedPageToday reports.

Results of a new study suggest that severe psoriasis doubles the likelihood of metabolic syndrome, and that the prevalence of each syndrome component - including obesity, hypertriglyceridemia and elevated glucose - increases with severity of the skin disease, MedPageToday reports.

Stanford University researchers say they have developed a wound dressing that can significantly reduce scar tissue caused by incisions, Medical News Today reports.

Statistics released to coincide with Melanoma Awareness Month show that more than a third - 36 percent - of United Kingdom residents still neglect to use sunscreen, Medical News Today reports.

People who say they’ve experienced skin eruptions involving objects such bugs, worms, eggs and fibers - a condition some label Morgellons disease - generally register a clean bill of health following a medical exam, HealthDay News and Reuters Health report.

Australia’s solarium operators are unaware that their customers are being exposed to levels of UV radiation up to six times the strength of the midday sun’s rays, Medical News Today reports.

A “gatekeeper” protein called C/EBP alpha plays a major role in skin cancer prevention in humans as well as lab mice, according to researchers from North Carolina State University, Medical News Today reports.

Medicare officials estimate that the new healthcare law will save Medicare $120 billion over the next five years as a result of lower payments to insurers and hospitals, Medical News Today reports.

The Food and Drug Administration of the Philippines has issued an advisory that warns of the potentially serious risks of using the popular intravenous skin whitener glutathione (Glutathione IV), GMA News Online reports.

As if just having bedbugs weren’t bad enough, researchers say theyrsquo;ve found the parasitic insects carrying methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, Time.com reports.

Researchers say they have discovered how hair stem cells in mice and rabbits communicate with each other to encourage coordinated regeneration - a finding that could lead to a cure for alopecia, Medical News Today reports.

Results of a new study suggest that the recovery of sensation after facial transplantation is as good as - and in some cases better than - that achieved by conventional surgery to repair nerve injuries, PRWeb.com reports.

China’s global economic impact is now being felt in the cosmetic surgery world, the online New York Times reports.

A large proportion of Caucasian teenage girls and young women who use tanning beds also have mothers who tan indoors, a new survey finds.

Participation in Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) continued to falter in 2009 as a large segment of eligible professionals either failed to meet minimum requirements or simply ignored the initiative, amednews.com reports.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Cosmofrance’s Dermasculpt, a flexible blunt-tip microcannula for non-bruising and virtually painless cosmetic injections, Medical News Today reports.

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis may improve the prognostic evaluation of atypical Spitzoid tumors, results of a new study indicate, HealthDay News reports.

Vitamin D deficiency is common in American children and, moreover, linked with obesity and different types of fat distribution in white and black youngsters, HealthDay News reports.

A U.S. District Court jury here has awarded a Virginia man $212 million in a suit against Botox manufacturer Allergan, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

Despite public awareness campaigns warning about the risks of tanning, a large portion of young Caucasian women still use sun beds or intentionally tan outdoors, results of an American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) survey suggest.

French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi-Aventis is looking to sell its U.S. dermatology business, Bloomberg.com reports.

Less than a month after the nation’s first full face transplant was performed at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, doctors there have performed the second, the Associated Press reports.

Virtual Health : Teledermatology gains ground, but reimbursement still a challenge Biopsy Quality : Breakthrough 3-D optical imaging now possible in vivo Special Report : Skin cancer

Identifying the biochemical composition of moles rapidly with Raman spectroscopy may help dermatologists and general practitioners to diagnosis skin cancers. Technology being developed by Verisante, through its Verisante Aura device, a multimodality imaging and spectroscopy system, would assist physicians with the early detection of skin cancers.