| Health: Clear Skin Solution
Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has details on the Clear Skin Solution; a growing trend that targets certain kinds of problems.Johari Smith tries hard to keep her skin healthy, and as a track coach she stays fit and takes care of herself but she still struggles with breakouts. "My skin is very unpredictable. Sometimes it's clear and sometimes I've got acne that I can't really control and it doesn't seem like anything that I put on it really works," said Johari. Now dermatologist have started to target ethnic skin types such as African Americans, Asians, Hispanics and those with a Mediterranean background, who have olive skin. "One size does not fit all, people are fundamentally the same but their skin is not," said Philadelphia dermatologist, Dr. Susan Taylor. She has created a line of skin care products, cleansers and moisturizers targeted for darker skin tones.
Mother's hug really does ease a baby's pain, McGill University researcher says
Every child believes a mother's hug and kiss has healing properties that can make pain go away faster. A Montreal study has discovered a cuddle truly does lessen babies' suffering. It works even on the extremely premature, infants born after 28 to 31 weeks of gestation. But not any kind of hug will do. It has to be skin to skin and chest to chest. .
PAUL KRUGMAN: Health care horror stories abound
Not long ago, a young Ohio woman named Trina Bachtel, who was having health problems while pregnant, tried to get help at a local clinic. Unfortunately, she had previously sought care at the same clinic while uninsured and had a large unpaid balance. The clinic wouldn't see her again unless she paid $100 per visit - which she didn't have. Eventually, she sought care at a hospital 30 miles away. By then, however, it was too late. Both she and the baby died. You may think that this was an extreme case, but stories like this are common in America. Back in 2006, The Wall Street Journal told another such story: that of a young woman named Monique White, who failed to get regular care for lupus because she lacked insurance. Then, one night, "as skin lesions spread over her body and her stomach swelled, she couldn't sleep." .
Summer getaways: Yellowstone attracts visitors with skin-melting pool
Life can get pretty hectic here on campus. Why not spend your summer communing with nature? That's what Yellowstone National Park is all about. With its bizarre yet fascinating collection of geysers and hot springs, it routinely leaves park visitors thinking, "Wow, this planet really is a living organism."
OK, that first paragraph sounded a lot like a travel brochure, but Yellowstone really is pretty neat. If you've spent all your money on overpriced textbooks and Chartwells cuisine, it's a good way to travel cheap. So, grab your knee-high moccasins, don your fringy leather coat, put on your coonskin cap and get ready to live the life of a real mountain man.
By night, stay in one of Yellowstone's lodges or hotels. By day, visit some of nature's oddest sites.
Old Faithful is a definite must-see, although it's kind of boring to stand alongside about 50 other weary tourists for an estimated 45 to 125 minutes, waiting for it to erupt as some obnoxious kid pulls on his mom's fanny pack and whines about how long it's taking.
Robinson: What happens to a dream deferred?
Friday, April 4, 2008, marked the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. As I watched videos of his life, and interviews given by those who were with him in those final moments, I began to think about the poem "Harlem" written by Langston Hughes, and more specifically the following two lines: What happens to a dream deferred/Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? I have often wondered how Dr. King would feel if he were alive today. I have also wondered if he would feel that his dream, of blacks and whites, living, learning, and loving each other together, equally was indeed dried up. A friend asked me if I thought Dr. King would have sided with Jeremiah Wright and his comments. I told her that I believe Dr. King would be disappointed at the state of relations in our country today.
Man murdered in drive-by shooting
A man was shot dead on Wednesday night by an unknown assailant while walking on Maxey Drive, Dyersburg Police said. The man, whose identity had not been confirmed by police as of posting, was reported to have been killed by a drive-by shooting at about 10:53 p.m., said DPD spokesman Capt. Steve Isbell, from a 911 call made from a neighbor's residence. Witnesses described the dead person as a young black man with a short fade haircut. He was wearing a black pullover sweater, black jeans and black shoes when he was shot near the parking lot curb in front of the 1500 block of Maxey Drive. Neighbors in the public housing units next to and adjacent to the site of the murder reported hearing a single gun shot before looking outside to see the man flat on his back. Police arrived and immediately began to attempt to resuscitate the fallen man, who witnesses said was unconscious and taking shallow breaths.
Washington DC
ROCKVILLE, Md. (Map) - ROCKVILLE, Md., April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: HGSI) today announced that it has completed enrollment and initial dosing in BLISS-52, one of two pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials of LymphoStat-B(R) (belimumab) in patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). LymphoStat-B is being developed by HGS and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) under a co-development and commercialization agreement entered into in August 2006. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080416/HGSLOGO ) "We continue to be excited by LymphoStat-B's potential. Assuming it is successful in Phase 3, we believe that LymphoStat-B could represent a breakthrough in the treatment of SLE," said H. Thomas Watkins, President and Chief Executive Officer, HGS.
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