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| Acne & spots Useful contacts The Acne Support Group is an excellent source of accurate and helpful information. They also raise money for research into acne. Write to: PO Box 9, Newquay, Cornwall TR9 6WG, UK. Tel: 0870 870 2263. The Acne Support Group also has a website specially for teenagers which provides tips and advice on common problems and reviews of other acne websites. The National Library of Medicine in the USA provides an acne website. It consists mainly of links to other websites dealing with acne. AcneNet is an informative US website containing tips, facts and questions about acne, which is produced in collaboration with the American Academy of Dermatology. Facefacts is the website of Roche Pharmaceuticals, the company that makes isotretinoin. This is an entertaining and informative site. Look at the thingamajig section, which allows you to make a picture of your face with spots, by ‘dragging’ various sorts of spots onto the image of a face similar to your own. You can save this picture, and use it to check your progress. Dermatology in the cinema. Look at this website for stories and images of actors and musicians with acne and other skin problems. www.dermatology.co.uk is a website covering common skin problems. Their acne section is at: US government isotretinoin sheet. The US government Food and Drug Administration has an information sheet about isotretinoin on its website.www.fda.gov/cder/drug/InfoSheets/patient/IsotretinoinPT.htm If you have any suggestions about how to make this site even better please send them to us at info@healthpress.co.uk. |
