“Migraine hurts skin” is the headline in the Daily Mirror. The newspaper describes the symptom of sensitive skin, called allodynia, where sufferers of migraine find combing their hair, wearing jewellery or getting dressed “excruciatingly painful”. The newspaper reports that 10% of people in the UK suffer migraine. The Daily Telegraph covers the same story and suggests “two thirds of migraine sufferers reported symptoms of the condition allodynia”.

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Eczema is a distressing condition for both parents and babies - the raw, red skin is painful to see and it is difficult to stop small children from scratching it. At worst, it can mean having to wet wrap wriggly toddlers each day with bandages soaked in moisturisers. It usually starts in the first year of life and affects about 10% of infants. Although most children eventually grow out of it, about half will go on to develop another allergic condition, such as asthma or hayfever.

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BioVex Inc, a biotechnology company developing clinical stage treatments for cancer and the prevention of infectious disease, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the design of a single, pivotal, Phase III clinical trial evaluating its lead product, OncoVEX(GM-CSF) in previously treated patients with metastatic melanoma. The agreement was made under the Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) procedure.

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The Endocrine Society has released new clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of hirsutism in premenopausal women. The guidelines appear in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), a publication of The Endocrine Society.Hirsutism is defined medically as excessive terminal hair that appears in a male pattern in women.

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Very preterm babies, born between 28 and 31 weeks, could benefit from skin-to-skin cuddling with their mother before and during painful procedures such as a heel lance, according to new research.

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