Shampooing Doesnt Cause HairlossHello Im Doctor Neal Schultz and welcome to Derm TV. One of the most frustrating problems for both men and women is when they think that there hair is falling out or theyre loosing too much hair. Actually were supposed to shed or loose 150 hairs everyday. So and there were times in different seasons when were shed a little more, shed a little less the only thing tha...read more
That depends on how much skin they are exposing and what time of the year it is. In a place like San Diego or Arizona, if they were to spend 10 to 15 minutes on each side of their bodies, pretty well what we call full body exposure, they would actually produce 15-20,000 International Units of vitamin D in that short period of time. We dont need that much, so I am going to say that probably at mid-...read more
Dr. Jim Sears: First let's talk about what a fever is? You know when somebody gets an infection we actually have a graphic that you can watch that shows when a body gets an infection, the bacteria or virus enters the body usually through the mouth, through the nose and it kind of flows through the blood steam and all of the white blood cells that help fight infection those get released and they re...read more
Polly Danos: My name is Polly Danos. August 24th, it's going to be 8 years. I'm from Cut Off, Louisiana. And, very important, breast examination, because I found my lump first, then I went to a doctor and they found, by the mammogram, taken mammograms and all. And they found it, and it's a half inch tumor. So they remove that and took chemo and radiation, and the whole nine yards.I had to honor to...read more
Attitude and Perspective for Better Living with MSHi! My name is Michael Gerber and I'm an advocate for living well with multiple sclerosis. Today, Id like to talk about attitude and perspective. My friend Mitchell says I used to be able to do 10,000 things, now I can only do 9,000 things and thats what I focus on and hes right. We all have so many abilities and thats what we need to focus on. We ...read more
Raena Morgan: Can children get stressed out? And can you tell? I mean, are there symptoms? And what would you do?Dr. Molly Ferguson: So, absolutely, children get stressed out, just like adults. Certainly life changes—divorces, moving, and new siblings—Raena Morgan: New siblings, yes.Dr. Molly Ferguson: New friends, trouble with friends can all cause stresses in children. Problems at school—if they...read more
Tammy's Smoking Habit Effects and DiagnosisMale: Tammy as you can see there's a tumor on the left lung. I'm sorry to have to tell you that. Tammy and I spent some time looking at her CAT scan and as you can tell its a little bit shaken up because unfortunately it doesnt show a good news. I'm sorry I have to show that with you but it actually shows a lung cancer that was probably and contributed to...read more