According to one of my favorite life advisors of all time, Mr. Dale Carnegie, a person is never to tell others they are doing something wrong.  Maybe that is the case, but when the improvement of skin care is on the line, I say a woman has to get her priorities straight. Here’s the deal:  Most people apply skin care products by applying them to their cheeks first, then rubbing in circular motions outward.  However, the majority of sun damage becomes visible on the center of the face — most particularly the nose, lower forehead,... read more

You have to hand it to Unilever, the makers of Vaseline:  not only have they been able to keep the original petrolatum jelly formula on the market since 1872 (that’s 138 years, in case you’re counting), but they’ve also been able to keep their products fresh, most notably being amongst the first drugstore body lotions to add SPF, and now with their innovative Stratys-3™ technology. Like most skin care “technologies,” Stratys-3™ technology comes down nothing more than a clever meld of ingredients.  Unlike... read more

This is a post of a more personal, less technical nature.  I have really missed writing and regularly interacting with my readers for the past few weeks, so I figured that I would get back into the game by writing about what has been on my mind: the medical boards.  (And no worries, I’ll keep it more entertaining than talk of microbial bugs and pharmaceutical drugs or what ails, fails, or impales)!  I am currently in the midst of preparing for the USMLE Step I examination, a.k.a. part one of the infamous “medical boards”.... read more