Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Body odor develops when sweat mixes with bacteria on your skin. Apocrine glands are the glands most closely associated with body odor. Regularly showering and wearing deodorant can decrease your body ...

We all sweat – it’s one of the body’s most normal functions. Running to catch a bus, a stressful meeting and hormonal changes are just some things that can trigger it. And while sweat helps regulate ...

Frequency and Impact of Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency in Patients With High-Grade Glioma, a Retrospective Analysis of 7 Years in Pakistan: an IRRDC Study We conducted a retrospective, ...

We all stink some of the time, when bacteria get stuck in the sweat produced by our apocrine glands. The problem is that our senses can become accustomed to common smells, even the dodgy ones. It’s ...

Sweating is an important bodily function that keeps you cool during hot weather and tough workouts. The end result is usually nothing more than sticky skin and the occasional pit-stained T-shirt. But ...

Lurking among us are foolish folks who fork out cash for deodorants even though their armpits don’t smell. This is the take-home message of a recent article in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology ...

Hyperhidrosis is defined as excessive eccrine sweating that is quantitatively greater than that required for normal thermoregulation. It is a common problem seen by endocrinologists. At the 40th ...

You might hate the feeling of wax clogging up your ears, but the goo is actually a very important bodily secretion that serves many roles. It flushes dead skin cells out of your ear that don’t need to ...