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The section pages are curated, which means somebody decided what belonged. This page did not. Everything published, newest first, including the pieces that never fit a theme and were never going to.
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
A 2021 systematic review pooled how accurately each dermoscopic structure detects melanoma. Its stated exclusions removed studies of nail, mucosal, acral and facial melanoma — the…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
Pulse oximeters read high on darker skin partly because the light-emitting diodes inside them are not one color. Model the same device with monochromatic laser diodes…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
Scalp sarcoidosis looks like the other scarring alopecias and can only be separated from them on a biopsy. In the published cases it occurs overwhelmingly in…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
A survey cultured 937 Cleveland schoolchildren and found 122 positive for scalp fungus, all African American, three fifths of them with nothing visible. Using anti-dandruff shampoo…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
Acanthosis nigricans has a positive predictive value of 81 percent for insulin resistance in one matched study and adds nothing beyond body mass index in another.…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
A meta-analysis of studies that went looking put the pooled incidence of drug-induced hyperpigmentation at 36.7 percent. The FDA's spontaneous reporting database, searched across twenty years…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
A Cochrane review searched for every randomized trial of treatment for sickle cell leg ulcers. It found six, all at unclear or high risk of bias,…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
Lichen planus pigmentosus has had two international consensus exercises about what to call it and one randomized controlled trial of a treatment. Twelve patients, split face,…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
The pores in a hair fiber are counted with gas sorption rigs and calorimeters, and bleaching adds more of them. What does not exist anywhere in…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
Seven laboratories tested the same eight sunscreens under the same ISO standard. For one SPF 50+ product the answers ran from 62.4 down to 5.5. The…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
Filaggrin loss-of-function is the most replicated genetic finding in eczema, and the usual test screens a handful of variants found in Europeans. Deep sequencing of 262…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
In the first psoriasis trial built around skin of color, a questionnaire about leftover discoloration correlated with quality of life at r = 0.75. The Psoriasis…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
An audit of Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics found that burns and leprosy were mostly illustrated on dark skin and keloids mostly on light skin. A separate…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
Equal facial thirds hold in 1 percent of Nigerians, 0 percent of southern Chinese, and in none of the North American Caucasians the rule was supposedly…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
Dark underarms are the second most commonly reported pigmentary complaint in the world. No study has ever measured pigmentation as an outcome of deodorant use, a…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
One retrospective study halved the treatment density on a fractional laser and watched post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation fall from 18.2 percent to 6.0, with no measurable loss of…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
In 2003 a review concluded there was substantial evidence that Black skin loses more water through the barrier. In 2022 a review dedicated to that exact…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
The four-type classification that decides which dark-circle treatment you are sold comes from a literature review plus one author's clinical experience. When 250 patients were sorted…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
The first stage of a pressure injury is defined by redness you can see. The entire allowance the staging system makes for skin where redness is…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
The study that made everyone afraid of gel lamps used cultured cells, and a replication found the sealed unit heats up enough that the heat may…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
A refused amputation and a death at 36 is the story that carries this disease into public awareness. The surgical literature says the type of operation…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
The figure everyone quotes for how many Black people have a pigmented nail band traces back through a review, to a review, to nothing. Meanwhile the…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
Frontal fibrosing alopecia is described in Black patients as starting earlier, running more severely and being diagnosed later. Not one of those three statements has a…
Sep 14, 2026 · Every Skin in the Room
There are exactly two published series of follicular unit extraction in patients of African descent. The same device developer is first author on both. The larger…
