Global Laser Charities Save Skin and Change Lives

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By Jennie Smith, Medscape

ORLANDO, Fla. — In 2009, Thanh-Nga Tran, MD, was a dermatology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston when she traveled to Vietnam — the country of her birth — for a clinical rotation.

There, Tran found that children with vascular and pigmented birthmarks were being treated not with energy-based devices, as had long been standard in the US, or propranolol, which was emerging an effective treatment for hemangiomas at the time.

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