Hilton Head Dermatology will offer free skin cancer screenings from 1 to 4 p.m. today at the Curves building, 1012 William Hilton Pkwy. Suzanne Wheeler will provide check-ups for women, and provide free samples and brochures.

BEAUFORT -- The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will hold a caregiver's support group at 10 a.m. on the fourth Tuesday of every month at Lowcountry Presbyterian Church. The group will start May 23.

Hilton Head Regional Medical Center will offer a fitness program at 6 p.m. Monday at Life Span at The Center for Integrative Health, 58 Shelter Cove Lane, and at 6 p.m. May 17 at the Bluffton-Okatie Outpatient Center.

Men are mentally slower than women. Any woman could tell you that, but now there's proof of a sort. Vanderbilt University researchers looking at 8,000 males and females ages 2 to 90 found females to be markedly better at timed tests and tasks.

The researchers said the differences, which were particularly significant in teens and preteens, did not reflect differences in overall intelligence, but they might help explain the growing school-achievement gap.

According to a recent survey, few women are aware that dry eye is a common symptom of menopause. A survey sponsored by the Society for Women's Health Research revealed that 62 percent of menopausal and peri-menopausal women report experiencing dry eye symptoms, but only 16 percent knew that the condition was linked to menopause.

Treatments, which depend on the cause and the severity of the condition, can include artificial tear eyedrops, prescription therapies and surgery.

Common wisdom has it that male-pattern baldness is inherited from your mother's side of the family tree, but that's not necessarily so, according to Robert Weiss, a cosmetic dermatologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

"You're probably in trouble, though, if both your mother's side and your father's side are bald," Weiss told the Ivanhoe.com medical news service last week. Weiss is currently studying a new way to stimulate hair growth using a device that emits low-energy red light to energize hair follicles.

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