Excessive sweating, often known as hyperhidrosis, is estimated to affect between 2–5% of the global population. Many people with the condition remain undiagnosed because they feel embarrassed to seek help or assume their sweating is ‘normal’. Around half of those...
Each year in the developed world it is estimated that around 100 million patients acquire scars as a result of surgery or injuries. These are acquired from around 55 million elective surgical operations, and 25 million operations after trauma, it...
Stretch marks (striae) can be caused by overextension and stretching of the skin. It therefore tends to be common to occur at times when the body shape is changing rapidly such a during pregnancy, puberty/adolescence, periods of weight gain or...
