They can develop as flat, discolored areas of skin or as raised growths, often with a rough surface.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

People with minor cases of frostbite that affect only the skin may not suffer any permanent damage.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Doctors say anyone with pain, swelling or red skin on a leg during or after a long trip may have a blood clot.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

"Tonight you,with your dark skin and foolish tears, you have that blood running in your veins,mijo.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

The female mosquito uses its thin sucking tube to break the skin, find blood and inject the victim with a substance that keeps blood flowing.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

"About half of my soaps have no added essential oils, it's for people with very sensitive skin who want to avoid essential oils for any reason.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

People with light-colored skin, hair or eyes are at greatest risk.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Paul's face was white with thin blue veins under the skin.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

He suffered headaches and problems with his skin and stomach.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

They paint images of funny flat-faced people with orange-yellow skin.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

So,can driving with the windows up save your skin?

VOA: special.2010.07.06

"A needle that goes through the skin needs to be as sharp as possible because that's going to be associated with the easiest access, the more slick closure, and the less pain when somebody has, say their blood drawn or their skin closed."

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Mention Hollywood, and most people think of glamour: beautiful women with smooth,flawless skin and perfectly aligned white teeth, men with trim athletic bodies.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Emery Agalu does not believe Jackson's skin treatments had anything to do with his death.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

It's the vitamin associated with the sun that we absorb through our skin, and increasingly block out when we use sunblock, to avoid getting skin cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

"The puffy lips is the worst," casting director Keith Wolfe doesn't like seeing actors whose skin is either too taut or swollen with filler as a result of the surgery.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

When one imagines that a talent that great and a person with that much inner and outer beauty could have had obstacles simply because of the color of her skin, it makes me weep."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

"And that was in direct contrast with the c-section babies, who harbored bacterial communities that resembled human skin, but not their own mother's human skin any more than any of the other mothers in the study."

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

"I'd have to say that equally on both sides of the coin, my successes with regards to my science are the discovery of the genetic basis of a number of different human skin diseases, using very unconventional approaches, which are now approaches in medical textbooks, but at the time, they were very unconventional."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29