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Article: Read up on acne . . .(Features)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1999
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Acne is one of the most common conditions known to our generation. It effects 80 per cent of adolescents and one in every five adults.
It demands sympathetic and considerate management as it scars not only the skin but the psyche. After all who wants to have their face peppered with red open pores, blackheads, whiteheads, spots and scarring? Acne can make a hermit out of a teenager who should be out living life to the full.
A new manual, The Good Skin Doctor* written by former sufferer Dr Anthony C Chu and Anne Lovell, advice columnist from Bella magazine ...