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This hypo pigmentation disorder includes many disorders with color loss, the most famous is vitiligo. There are two main reason of generalized reduction in skin pigmentation at birth; it may either occur due to racial origin or due to albinism (is a form of hypo-pigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a partial or total amelanosis).


There are basically six main types of skin on the bases of the amount of melanin (a pigment producing skin cell, which is also involved in skin protection from the sun light and UV exposure). A person with certain skin types shows different risk to cancer and burning with UV or sun exposure. Thus, dermatologists [...]


Tempestt Bledsoe is a best actress of Hollywood and the role of Bill Cosby’s daughter and fourth child has become the popularity symbols for this actress. The Cosby Show was on air from 1984 to 1992. Currently she is taking part as a contestant in Celebrity Fit Club 3 which is on air on VH-1 [...]


Eddie Panlilio is a priest and governor as well. He is a well known, dedicated and loved by all personality. He is a 26th governor of the state of Pampanga and made a history to be the 1st Roman Catholic priest by elected on this post. In true words he is a great pastor and [...]


Doc Hammer is involved in stage and a versatile artist. Doc Hammer is his stage name but its real name is Eric Arthur Hammer. He is a remarkable editor, co-creator and co-writer of Venture Bros and also working in “The Venture Bros” as a voice actor which is an animated series on television.


Big Krizz Kaliko lives in the Kansas, Missouri and is a singer and American rapper. Krizz Kaliko is his stage name and his real name is Samuel W.C. Watson. He is married and has a son. Sunlight always affects his sensitive skin as he is a vintiligo patient. But he said, I can not keep [...]


Vitiligo, this is a sort of disease differentiated with coincidentally appearance of irregular patches on the upper surface of skin with the color lighter than the aboriginal skin. How does it happen the origination of the disease, the deficiency in the color producing cells ”Melanocytes” causes the loss of native skin color initially in form [...]


What causes Vitiligo Vitiligo is a very common disorder, affecting some 40-50 million people across the globe, but why does one person fall a victim to it, while another in similar circumstances does not, is still a mystery. Of all that we know about causes of vitiligo, auto-immunity is one of the best understood factors. It [...]


Psoralen or also called psoralene there is the major compound in a group of natural products known as furocoumarins. It has structural formation related to coumarin by the addition of a fused furan ring, and may be considered as a derivative of umbelliferone. The seeds of Psoralea corylifolia naturally contain Psoralen as well as it [...]