Japanese authors of a research letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET describe how a chance discovery of the location for the gene which codes for ear wax could be a useful step towards a better ...

Humans have up to four million sweat glands distributed over the body. Approximately three million of these are eccrine sweat glands. Eccrine glands secrete an odorless, clear fluid that serves to aid ...

It’s gross, it stinks sometimes, and it’s pretty well come in handy throughout human history. This week, we’re breaking down the science of sweat. * It should come as no surprise that the vast ...

Our patient had Fox-Fordyce disease, otherwise known as apocrine miliaria. A chronic, recurrent, inflammatory disease affecting the sweat glands, Fox-Fordyce disease is characterized by the presence ...