Monthly Archives: July 2014

Mutation V60L increases predisposition to skin cancer

Conrado Martínez Cadenas, researcher at the Department of Medicine in the Universitat Jaume I. When Homo sapiens left Africa and had to adapt to less sunny climates, there was a mutation in one of the genes responsible for regulating the synthesis of melanin, the MC1R gene, which involved a discoloration of the skin. This discoloration…

Cameron Diaz on her acne struggle

Cameron Diaz said she struggled with acne Cameron Diaz has told how banishing fast food cleared up her “embarrassing” struggle with acne. The Hollywood actress, 41, opens up in her new health guide, The Body Book, about how she tried to get rid of the skin condition, Radar Online reported. She writes: “I had terrible, terrible skin embarrassing,…

ASK THE DOCTOR: What’s making my skin so itchy?

By DR MARTIN SCURR For the past ten months I have been plagued by chronic itching all over my upper body. It is very bad and I get white blotches under the skin when I scratch. My GP doesn’t know what it is and just prescribed menthol in aqueous cream. But this only cools the skin.…