What if we could monitor patients in the future without taking blood samples every time? TU/e researcher Sophie Adelaars ...

Additionally, the skin can chafe easily and the armpit has hair follicles and sweat glands. These factors make the perfect conditions for numerous types of rashes. Armpit rashes can caused by many ...

But it seems our species swapped the once-abundant hair follicles for sweat glands, which are not as efficient at healing wounds but help keep us cool in hot environments. In theory, this slower ...

Methods: Phenotypes for short hair length (SHL, undercoat) and long hair length (LHL, topcoat), sweat gland area (SGA), and thermal stress slope (TSS), a measure of body temperature fluctuations under ...

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Sweating happens when the skin sends signals to the brain indicating that the body is getting hot, triggering sweat glands to release a liquid mixture of mostly water, as well as salt, potassium ...

Over the past decades, electronics engineers have developed a wide range of wearable devices that can be used to track some physiological processes and collect health or fitness-related data. These ...

Antibiotic cream or lotion if bacteria is part of the cause. In rare cases, blocked ducts may cause damage to sweat glands. This is called miliaria profunda. The sweat glands stop working (anhidrosis) ...

This is partly because they have fewer sweat glands and tend to sweat less during activity. She also notes that body fat, which are more present in women, acts like insulation, keeping the heat ...