"Just when you think things are beginning to look up for Sony, the PlayStation goes and gets its very own skin disorder: PlayStation palmar hidradenitis.
The new skin condition springs from the case of a 12-year-old girl, treated in a Swiss hospital for intensely painful sores on the palms of her hands. The doctors examining the girl determined that she had idiopathic eccrine hidradenitis, a condition usually linked with heavy physical activity and intense sweating that results in sores on the hands and feet. Having the sores only on ones hands was rare, and the young lady in question hadn't been participating in outdoor activities...but she had been playing a great deal of PlayStation. Aha!
Sure enough, after 10 days spent avoiding the console, the girl's condition cleared right up, and the British Journal of Dermatology got a new entry in the form of PlayStation palmar hidradenitis.
