Sometimes life throws a lot at you, and it takes resilience to handle it without getting frazzled. Some people seem to have a natural ability to brush off negativity and keep their cool under pressure ...

Hard skin on feet develops gradually due to constant pressure and friction. This thickening is the skin's way of protecting ...

Skin grafting is a technique for treating injured, broken, or lost skin. A split-thickness skin graft is made by shaving off a thin area of healthy skin from elsewhere on the body. Share on Pinterest ...

Occasionally, following a transplant procedure, the donor's immune cells recognize the recipient's tissues as foreign and trigger a multisystem disorder called graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).

Humans are just so naked. Where many creatures have scales or spines—or even a shell—humans have a soft, sweaty, stretchy layer of skin standing between the world and our internal organs. Thank ...