Compared with her own experiences with nicks and cuts, the baboons’ ability to heal seemed like a superpower.

Warmth and moisture can also loosen up constricted or clogged oil glands. This helps increase your production of meibum, a fatty compound that helps your tears lubricate your eyes more effectively.

These hormones act directly on apocrine glands in hair follicles and eccrine glands in skin pores without hair follicles. Genetics is thought to play a central role in primary hyperhidrosis as up to ...

Demodex mites are tiny eight-legged parasites that mostly live in hair follicles and oil glands on your face, neck, or chest. As alarming as this may sound, they’re generally harmless.

It begins in the prostate gland, which sits between the penis and the bladder. Experts do not know what causes it, but the risk increases with age. The prostate has various functions. These ...

Cancer of the thymus gland is rare. Most cancers that start in the thymus gland are called thymomas. There’s also a much rarer form of thymus gland cancer called thymic carcinoma. The thymus gland is ...

Gland Pharma topped the losses with a drop of almost 6 per cent, followed by Aurobindo Pharma, which fell by almost 5 per cent. Biocon's shares fell more than 4 per cent, and Sun Pharma, Lupin, Laurus ...

The shares of Gland Pharma experienced the sharpest fall, crashing 6% to a low of Rs 1,340 on the BSE, followed by Aurobindo Pharmaceuticals and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, which fell 5% and 4.2% ...

Sweat from these glands contains fats and other compounds that smell when broken down by bacteria. Eccrine Glands: Eccrine glands are found over most of your body and release sweat through your skin ...

Adrenal glands, responsible for producing hormones that manage the body’s stress response, can sometimes become overburdened. This can result in a commonly seen condition called adrenal fatigue ...

The endocrine system refers to the cells, glands and organs that secrete hormones directly into the blood in order to control physiological and behavioural activities. The effects of the endocrine ...

The prostate is a muscular gland shaped like a walnut, located about two inches inside the rectum at the base of the bladder. It helps produce seminal fluid and propel it from the penis during ...