| Bradley buyout spurns founder
European drugmaker Nycomed yesterday said it plans to acquire Bradley Pharmaceuticals for $346 million and take it private, thwarting a similar bid by Bradley's founder. News of the $20-a-share offer for the Fairfield-based specialty pharmaceutical company sent shares of Bradley up more than 22 percent by the close of regular trading. The deal represented a 25 percent premium to Bradley's closing price Monday, but was less than the $21.50 a share the company's chief executive, Daniel Glassman, offered in May. Glassman founded the company in 1985, naming it after his son, who now works as a sales executive in the business. But Glassman's control of the company weakened last year, when a Boston hedge fund launched a proxy fight that led to a number of concessions, including changes in the composition of the board of directors.
MRSA is treatable, officials advise
Did you check for boils last night? Pimples, too, perhaps? Wondering if it's just acne or a drug-resistant staph infection? Despite the recent media and public lens turned toward methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, health officials are urging people to stay calm about the common and treatable infection, and cautioning that individual cases are not cause for concern. For the most part, local health departments, hospitals and schools have seen only a slight uptick in concerned calls and patient visits. "MRSA's been around for a long time, but no one really paid attention before kids started getting it at school and getting in the news," said state Department of Correctional Services spokesman Erik Kriss. About 100 cases of the infection are reported annually in state prisons — including the eight in Orange, Ulster and Sullivan counties — out of more than 63,000 prisoners.
Feeling Stressed?
Pending job cuts at the office. Back-to-back final exams. A messy divorce. An unexpected surgery. What do they all have in common? In a word -- stress. While everyone knows that stress can take a toll on a person physically and psychologically, it also can lead to dermatologic problems, such as acne, brittle nails or even hair loss.
Speaking today at the American Academy of Dermatology's Skin Academy (Academy), dermatologist Flor A. Mayoral, MD, FAAD, clinical instructor in the departments of dermatology and cutaneous surgery at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Fla., discussed the most common outward signs of stress on the skin, hair and nails, and offered stress management tips to control these symptoms.
"In treating hundreds of patients over the years with skin conditions such as eczema, rosacea, acne and psoriasis, I have seen firsthand how stress can aggravate the skin and trigger unexpected flare-ups that, in effect, create more stress for patients," said Dr.
Acne Medication May Delay Progress Of Multiple Sclerosis, Canada
A common acne medication that has been available for over 30 years has the potential to delay the progress of multiple sclerosis and if proven effective, will offer an inexpensive option for the treatment of early MS, says the MS Society of Canada.
Clinical researchers in Calgary and 13 other Canadian centres will be taking an in-depth look at an oral therapy known as minocycline after initial studies have shown promising results. A new $4 million multi-centre clinical trial involving 200 participants from across Canada is being funded through the MS Society's related MS Scientific Research Foundation.
-- minocycline FAQ--
"The benefits of minocycline are straight forward: it's relatively cheap, has few side effects and can be taken in pill format," says Dr.
Intermission: Point and click tricks
Digital cameras revolutionized the way that we photograph the world. Where once we might have asked a stranger to take a photo of us, we now extend our arms and direct the lens at our face before opening the shutter. Once we hear the synthetic “click" of a closed shutter, we flip the camera around to view the photograph on the LCD screen to decide if another take is necessary. It's the digital self-portrait, and it is unavoidable on Facebook. It has become such a symbol for the way we share ourselves with the virtual world that it has been absorbed by marketers as a means of conveying modernity (for proof of this, look no further than the poster for “Marie Antoinette"). .
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