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Medicine

Skin Barrier Function and Topical Corticosteroid Potency Selection

Quick fact

A steroid cream that is 'super-potent' on the face can cause irreversible skin thinning, but on the thick skin of the palms it might be barely effective.

Why this is interesting

Your skin looks like a wall, but sometimes it lets in medicine like a sieve. Why does the same cream work wonders on one person's eczema but fail on another's?