Word: dermatologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...procedures in the world is usually requested by men: hair transplants. In recent years, medical efforts to reforest bare scalps have become increasingly sophisticated. A combination of new surgical procedures can now mask baldness so faithfully that "only the patient and his doctor will know for sure," according to Dermatologist Theodore Tromovitch of San Francisco. At the same time, research on a new drug treatment suggests the hair-raising possibility that baldness can be prevented in the first place, even for those fated by heredity to lose their hair...
...Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, De Vries makes that conflict both hilarious and explicit. Tony's father debates a local dermatologist, who happens to be the town's most vocal atheist, on the subject of Christian belief. Their spirited exchange, waged before an enthralled and partisan audience of locals, is declared a draw. But the combatants have persuaded each other to switch positions. The minister resigns his post and faith, moves east and becomes a suave, voice-over pitchman in dog food TV commercials; the doctor takes up tub-thumping evangelical crusading. Late in the novel, a rematch is arranged...
Doctors have long known that ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun produces profound changes in human skin. "Even one day's exposure can cause damage," says Dermatologist Fred Urbach of Temple University in Philadelphia. The most insidious rays are the short wavelength UVB, which prevail during the peak sun hours (between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.). But new research has shown that even longer UVA waves, which are present all day, can promote skin cancer...
...rubbed some on that morning, even though they would be indoors most of the day. But the most urgent and unanimous recommendation was to protect the skin of young children. Though skin cancer may not show up until age 50, the initial damage is done in early childhood, says Dermatologist Isaac Willis of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. Indeed, most of a life time's sun exposure takes place by age 30. By the time wrinkles appear, the damage is done. - By Claudia Wallis...
...spent a good deal of time this year job-hunting for the spouses of sought after sociologists. At the start of the year, the department had three offers outstanding, all to scholars whose spouses are employed. One is an English professor, another an accountant, and the third a dermatologist. "You could almost set up a little community with those six people." Davis observes...