| Stiefel Laboratories, Inc. Enters into Strategic Collaboration with Allergan, Inc. to Expand and Strengthen ...
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (Map) - CORAL GABLES, Fla., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Stiefel Laboratories, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an arrangement with Allergan, Inc. (NYSE: AGN) to develop, manufacture, distribute and promote dermatological products containing tazarotene. Under the terms of the transaction, Stiefel will utilize Allergan's proprietary technology and tazarotene in several different ways. Stiefel's U.S. sales force will co-promote Allergan's TAZORAC(R) (tazarotene) to dermatologists. Stiefel also will capitalize on its existing patent-protected technology and Allergan's innovative tazarotene compound to bring unique therapeutic options to market for a common dermatological disease. "This is a great opportunity," said Bill Humphries, Chief Commercial Officer, Stiefel Laboratories.
Skincare and Menopause: Adult Acne Skin Care Treatments
Skincare-News.com offers help for those who suffer from adult acne, a common condition during the hormone imbalanced times of menopause. Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) November 6, 2007 -- Most people rejoice that the adolescent years are over, thinking that blemishes are long gone. Then they enter menopause, and are shocked to see blemishes appear on the face once again. What can be done? Skincare-News.com's latest article, "Making Sense of Menopause and Troublesome Skin" shares insights about what can be done to treat these problematic spots, and how to differentiate between acne and other skin conditions that may flare up as a result of hormonal changes.
http://www.skincare-news.com/articles.php?ArtID=457 During menopause essentially the hormones tend to run amuck.
What to give the man who has everything
STUCK FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT for that special person? Worry no more, for a US firm has come up with the answer - cuddly giant microbes. Each six inch bug comes with an image of the real thing, together with fascinating facts about the disease. The rather infectious soft toys are available in a wide range of embarrassing, uncomfortable and fatal varieties including gonorrhoea, syphilis, mad cow disease and malaria. Other cuddly viruses include salmonella, ebola, acne, rabies, black death and flu. The company's 'professional' range includes HIV and hepatitis, while lesser maladies include bad breath, athlete's foot and pimples. A cuddly Ebola virus, yesterday The description of the Ebola toy says: "Since its discovery in 1976 Ebola has become the T Rex of microbes.
Questions raised about drug being studied for MS
A group of American scientists has warned other researchers that an acne drug being tested as a possible treatment for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases - including in Canada for multiple sclerosis - may actually cause harm. The scientists reported that in a clinical trial of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease, those who received the drug minocycline declined more rapidly than those who received a placebo. Their report, published Thursday in the journal Lancet Neurology, comes just a week after the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada announced it was funding a multi-centre Phase 3 trial to look at whether the inexpensive and off-patent minocycline can slow the progression of MS when treatment is commenced in the earliest stages of the disease.
Does diet affect acne?
Here's a question to ponder: Why is acne common in the Western, industrialized world, while the pimples that plague American kids are rare in developing countries? It's a puzzler — and one that prompted Australian researchers to ask whether changing the diet of teenagers would have any effect on acne. The results could change the way dermatologists think about diet. To test their theory, the Australian researchers recruited 50 young men between the ages of 15 and 25 with mild-to-moderate acne. They split the volunteers into two groups: One group was instructed to eat a diet of lean meat, poultry and fish, along with fruits and vegetables. They replaced foods such as white bread and highly processed breakfast cereals with whole grains. Meanwhile, the other group ate a typical Western diet.
Promising Lou Gehrig's disease drug fails trial
LONDON (Reuters) - An acne drug that had shown early promise in treating the degenerative nerve condition known as Lou Gehrig's disease actually worsens it, a study in Lancet Neurology said on Thursday. The findings from one of the first randomized trials of the drug minocycline in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also casts a shadow on studies planned for people with Huntington's disease, stroke and multiple sclerosis, it said. "Our finding that minocycline has a harmful effect on patients with ALS has implications for trials of minocycline in patients with other neurological disorders," Columbia University researcher Paul Gordon and colleagues wrote. .
Disease made Karl Marx boil with anger
Karl Marx suffered from a skin disease that can cause severe psychological effects such as self-loathing and alienation, according to a British dermatologist. The father of communism’s life and attitudes were shaped by hidradenitis suppurativa, said Sam Shuster in the British Journal of Dermatology. One of its symptoms is alienation – a concept that Marx, a martyr to boils and carbuncles, put into words as he wrote Das Kapital. The condition was described as early as 1839 by a French physician, Alfred Velpeau. But, Professor Shuster says, ideas crossed the Channel less readily than wine and Marx’s true condition was never diagnosed. Hidradenitis suppurativa is a disease of the apocrine sweat glands, found in the armpits and the groins.
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