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Patient Handouts

We have created a Blog to contain useful handouts for common and some uncommon skin conditions.

Please refer to:  Dermatology Patient Handouts.

Travel Health Tips

Recently the SilverTravelAdvisor had an interesting post advising travelers about "Medicnes on the Holiday Menu."

The NY Times also had a good article entitled "Sick on the Road?  Try the Grocery Store."

Both of these give simple advice on how to deal with minor problems such as bug bites, cuts and bruises, stomach and eye problems that a traveler might encounter.

They tell us that "[T]ravel-savvy physicians, pharmacists and scientists suggest that some grocery items available almost anywhere can do double duty for on-the-road ailments."

Sun Protection Chinese Stye

Beach Essentials In China (from the NY Times)

"For legions of middle-class Chinese women — and for those who aspire to their ranks — solar protection is practically a fetish, complete with its own gear. This booming industry caters to a culture that prizes a pallid complexion as a traditional sign of feminine beauty unscathed by the indignities of manual labor. There is even an idiom, which women young and old know by heart: 'Fair skin conceals a thousand flaws.'"  This is an interesting article.