“Hearst Magazines and Verizon Media may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below.” Scars are often romanticized as proof of our battle wounds and a sign of strength, with ...

Shamea Morton’s radiant brown skin is the color of cocoa. And her beautiful daughter Shya shares that same rich complexion. But like many Black women, Shamea’s melanin puts her at a higher risk for ...

Getting a new piercing is all fun and games until some time has passed and you end up with a abnormal looking bump appear around the area. This raised bit of skin that often occurs is called a keloid ...

When I had a small skin tag removed from my chest about 20 years ago, I didn’t know I was prone to keloids, a type of raised scar. But I developed one right in the spot where the skin tag was, and ...

Growing up, I found it difficult to escape the overwhelming, picture perfect, Instagram-filtered beauty standards that drowned out any semblance of reality. Add to that the dubious use of targeted ads ...

Question: I am a 26-year-old black woman. All through high school, I begged my mother to let me get my ears pierced. She said to wait until I graduated from college and was on my own. I did. On each ...

A man is asking the public for help as he seeks surgery to remove keloid scarring that is now covering 75 percent of his body. Davontae Stewart told Fox 2 that the appearance of scars on his body ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. and SUZHOU BIOBAY, China, April 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Sirnaomics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of RNAi therapeutics against cancer and ...

Getting a new piercing is all fun and games until some time has passed and you end up with a abnormal looking bump appear around the area. This raised bit of skin that often occurs is called a keloid ...

Keloids are fibrotic scars that extend beyond the boundaries of the original wound, often causing physical disfigurement and emotional distress. These scars are driven by an overproduction of ...