The new year brings the promise of new opportunities to better oneself. It could mean taking on a new fitness routine, reorganizing a messy closet or keeping a closer eye on making mealtime healthier. Additionally, many take the start of a new year as an opportunity to shift their mindset and work towards bettering themselves and their bodies.
If you've ever dealt with a torn earlobe or stretched-out piercing, you know how frustrating it can be and how it can leave you feeling self-conscience. Damaged earlobes, no matter how you got them – heavy earrings, accidental snags or oversized gauges that no longer fit your style – don't have to be permanent. Earlobe repair surgery can get your ears looking and feeling like new again.
Many patients are familiar with rhinoplasty – or the more colloquial term, "nose job" – but fewer are as informed about a procedure that can sometimes follow. Corrective rhinoplasty, also known as revision rhinoplasty, is a procedure that is used to address issues that have arisen from a previous rhinoplasty.
Until now, artificial gels have either managed to replicate high stiffness or natural skin's self-healing properties, but not both. Now, a team of researchers has developed a hydrogel with a unique structure that overcomes earlier limitations, opening the door to applications such as drug delivery, wound healing, soft robotics sensors and artificial skin.
Allergic contact dermatitis is an allergic reaction to allergens or skin irritants -- including poison ivy and certain metals such as nickel -- leading to an itchy, swollen rash.
