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Hormonal Therapies Offer Effective Solutions For Many Adult Women With Acne
Although acne traditionally has been considered a disease of teenagers, it is also extremely common in adult women. Studies show that acne affects more than 50 percent of women between the ages of 20-29 and more than 25 percent of women between the ages of 40-49 (1). In fact, after age 20, women are far more likely to report having acne than men. While there is no cure for acne, dermatologists are finding that hormonal therapies can help some women fight bothersome acne that occurs in adulthood.
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Doctor Works To Reduce Cancer Burden In Africa
In 2010, cancer will be the single leading cause of death worldwide, overtaking chronic illnesses such as heart disease and stroke. Already cancer causes more deaths than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Almost three-quarters of new cases will occur in developing countries, with more than a million cases in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020, according to World Health Organization projections.
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Gpx5: Sperm Shouldn't Leave The Testes Without This Protein
Joel Drevet and colleagues, at Clermont Universitç©, France, have identified a protein that helps protect immature mouse sperm after they have been released into a region of the testis known as the epididymis, which is where they undergo maturation. Although male mice lacking this protein, Gpx5, had normal looking sperm and were equally as efficient as normal male mice at fertilizing female mice, an increased incidence of miscarriages and fetal developmental defects were observed when normal female mice were mated with Gpx5-deficient males over 1 year old compared with normal male mice of the same age. Further analysis indicated that Gpx5 acts as an antioxidant in the epididymis, protecting the sperm from oxidative stress. As discussed by the authors, and, in an accompanying commentary, John Aitken, at the University of Newcastle, Australia, these data have immense clinical relevance as age-related DNA damage to human sperm has been associated with a range of adverse outcomes including decreased fertility, and increased rates of miscarriage and childhood disease.
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World MRSA Day Momentum Builds In The US And The UK

MRSA Survivors Network, the Chicago-based nonprofit and the official organization that launched World MRSA Day earlier this year is building momentum in the US, the UK and worldwide in its humanitarian grass-roots effort to raise awareness of the MRSA epidemic. "As governments and world agencies continue to put their focus on swine flu and prepare to spend billions of dollars on it as they did with Avian flu; the true epidemic/pandemic, MRSA continues to be virtually ignored", states Jeanine Thomas, president of MRSA Survivors Network and the National Spokesperson for MRSA. "It is unconscionable what has been allowed to happen and MRSA has been swept under the carpet in healthcare facilities for decades and the purpose of World MRSA Day is to raise awareness." Healthcare industry companies are stepping up and sponsoring World MRSA Day in the US and in the UK to raise awareness and save lives. In the U.S.; 3M, Tec Labs, Cepheid, Pfizer and others have lent their support and all have become true heroes in this movement to save lives. The inaugural pre-launch kick-off event in the U.S. will be held Oct. 1st at Loyola University in Chicago with an international press conference, followed by the event. MRSA Action UK, who shares and alliance with MRSA Survivors Network are planning their event for Oct. 2nd. MRSA activists are organizing and holding events in their communities on Oct. 2nd and throughout October, MRSA Awareness Month. Activists can list their event on the official site- www.worldmrsaday.org. MRSA Survivors Network and fellow activists are pushing for immediate action, legislation, funding, more stringent and pro-active infection control measures and enforcement by the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and governments to stop the massive loss of life and human suffering from preventable infections. World MRSA Day is embracing all survivors and their families who have suffered or lost a loved one from any multi-drug resistant infection. Jeanine Thomas of MRSA Survivors Network was the first advocate in the U.S. to raise the alarm about MRSA and other healthcare-acquired infections and began her crusade in 2003. Ms. Thomas is a survivor of MRSA, sepsis, osteomyelitis and C. Diff and became critically ill and nearly died from the results of ankle surgery. She now lives with chronic MRSA infections. MRSA Survivors Network


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