Also known as furuncles, boils are pockets of pus (a creamy, white substance) on the skin caused by bacteria infecting hair follicles. Cysts—noncancerous sacs of fluid, air, pus, or a soft ...

The issue arises if it gets into an open oil gland or hair follicle, which can cause an infection, resulting in an inflamed pus-filled boil, says Gaither. There are various risk factors that can ...

Boils, also known as furuncles, are hard, painful, pus-filled bumps on the surface of the skin. They are very common and ...

Though commonly called a “hair follicle test,” this drug test only tests clipped strands of hair, not the follicle located under the scalp. During this test, a small amount of hair is removed ...

The DHT in turn causes follicles to sprout shorter and finer hairs before eventually dying out. It also causes the growth phases of hair follicles to become shorter, and the rest phases to be longer.

It is one of many types of folliculitis, an infection in your hair follicle. It's caused by an overgrowth of a yeast called Malassezia that most people have naturally on their skin. But ...

A pimple on your butt could be a boil, which is a hair follicle infection. It could also be keratosis: a skin condition where dead skin cells build up in your hair follicles. Acne on your butt is ...

Researchers have grown hair follicles from mouse pluripotent stem cell lines for the first time. Until now, hair follicles could only be grown in vitro using primary cells isolated from embryonic skin ...

Scientists have determined a new way to protect the hair follicle from chemotherapy in an effort to prevent hair loss as a result of cancer treatments. Researchers based at The University of ...