Spring is here. You can finally stop salting your icy sidewalk and start focusing on summer issues, like cellulite. What is cellulite? It’s the dimpling and nodularity that occurs in women on the thighs, pelvis and abdomen. Cellulite is the result of fat pouching out of holes in the connective tissue on the skin. It occurs in [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Cellulite: What Is It? How Can You Treat It?
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged cellulite, diet, endermologie, exercise, fat, laser, radiofrequency, treatment 26 Comments
Does The Sun Cause Melanoma?
Yes. Isn’t the answer obvious? Doesn’t everyone know that the sun causes melanoma? Not so fast. There are many people who think we dermatologists are needlessly frightening everyone. They argue that the sun is good for you because it boosts your vitamin D levels and that dermatologists are subsidized by the sunscreen industry. They argue [...]
Red Spots
Lots of women have been Going Red lately. “Go Red” is a campaign to raise awareness of heart disease in women. Some women I see are often going red for a different reason: they’re covered in little red spots called cherry angiomas. Cherry angiomas are tiny lumps of overgrown blood vessels in the skin. Their [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged cherry angioma, red dot, red spot, senile angioma, skin, treatment 20 Comments
