Asian-Americans increasingly adopting risky skin-care habits
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 08:56
in Health & Medicine
A new survey from the Stanford University School of Medicine suggests that a significant number of Asian Americans living in California adopt unhealthy sun-exposure behaviours as they become more westernised. The findings underscore a need for increased skin-health awareness on the part of primary care physicians, dermatologists and people of Asian ancestry, who may incorrectly assume that pigmented skin and hair protect against skin cancer...