Thought this patent looked really interesting, especially if it results in a consumer device that will allow rosacea sufferers to safely remove facial hair without causing further irritation. I know I’d like an alternative to scraping a razor or blunt foil across my sensitive face everyday.
From Invention: Razor light
A device that uses light to send hair follicles to sleep, making skin smooth for weeks …

Last month we profiled a paper from Dermatology Times in `combining red & yellow LEDs, topicals & antibiotics’. We liked what we saw and contacted Dr. Goldberg to see if he would answer some questions for us. As there has been quite a lot of interest in LED based treatments we thought his expertise would be of interest to the group. Check out the questions …

This paper is interesting given that there is an ongoing clinical trial to look at restasis and treating ocular rosacea.

Current Treatment of Ocular Rosacea, Topical cyclosporine proves to be effective in treating rosacea. BY BARRY A. SCHECHTER, M.D.
Topical cyclosporine provided statistically significantly greater improvements in Schirmer scores (Graph 1), TBUT (Graph 2), corneal staining and ocular surface disease index (OSDI) scores (Graph 3) …

This paper details a new way that might prove useful in measuring facial edema (edema is the American English or oedema is the British English spelling). Interesting to note that they used sodium lauryl sulphate to induce irritant contact dermatitis. 

Definition: edema – swelling of any organ or tissue due to accumulation of excess lymph fluid, without an increase of the number of cells in the …

Thanks to Rick for continuing to share his experiences in taking accutane long term at low dosage. We really appreciate you continuing to keep us up to date with how accutane is helping you treat your rosacea. It is only through these sort of detailed reports that we can all learn how best to use the available treatments.

As Rick mentions in his most …