Word: dermatologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Doris (Sally Kish), a babbling advice columnist who has cancelled her travel plans so she can get some last-minute coverage by a shrewish reporter (Jen Harris). Of course, as in all good farces, it turns out that she and everyone else in the play, including an acne-afflicted dermatologist (Andrew Osborne) and an abandoned son bearing gifts (Chris Reed), are secretly related...
...patented GSL ingredient, the key to "rejuvenating" skin in Glycel products. Barnard's endorsement is the latest and most successful wrinkle in the lucrative skin game. Introduced only last month, Glycel has already topped $5 million in sales. The famed surgeon's involvement has also proved controversial. Declares Dermatologist Albert Kligman of the University of Pennsylvania, who has consulted for a rival manufacturer: "It's one huge piece of hype, and the motive is an ancient one: money...
...adolescent could handle. Avant-garde art, radical politics and a blend of bourgeois habits and bohemian attitudes encouraged theatrical poses. Simon's favorite getup is a long gray raincoat, a gold borsalino hat and black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon's elegantly decapitating style. "He had, or had invented," she writes...
...President's previous nose operation last July. Then it was six days before Reagan took questions on the subject. The diagnosis, now as then: basal-cell carcinoma, the most common and least dangerous form of cancer. The second lesion on the President's nose was removed by a Washington dermatologist, whom the Administration refuses to identify, in a short operation performed in the White House doctor's office under local anesthetic. Reagan explained that his doctors had been "keeping track" of his skin since his last operation. The latest surgery revealed "no sign of spreading," said a White House spokesman...
...less likely to cause an immediate sunburn, doctors warn that it may present the same long-term dangers caused by overexposure to the sun, including premature aging of the skin and a risk of skin cancer. "There is no such thing as a safe tan," says Darrell Rigel, a dermatologist who teaches at New York University School of Medicine. "The only reason ultraviolet alpha is less bad than beta is that it has less energy. If you intensify the alpha rays to get a tan, the damage is just as great as if you had normal amounts of beta." Some...