| Genesis Genomics goes to market with at-home skin test
Local biotechnology firm Genesis Genomics has launched a new product it hopes will change the face of the cosmoceutical marketplace. For the first time ever a take-home product will have the ability to detect DNA damage to a person's skin from UV exposure, to identify future risks and show the best way to treat any damage that may exist. And it is performed by a simple cotton swab. Genesis Genomics has put it's science behind a new line of skin care and repair products that will hit the shelves in nine markets around the world next month. Once risk factors are identified there is a line of treatments specially designed to either protect an individual or even repair damage already done at the most basic DNA level. Shopper's Drug Mart has signed on and will carry the product in 800 stores nationwide.
Zandile Blay: Recession Is Relative: The $400 Cream Theory
Haven't heard of 3Lab Cosmetics? Then perhaps you are in the lower tax bracket. Since debuting a few months ago, 3Lab's high-end skin care has earned cult-status among the really rich, from wealthy Upper East Siders' to international celebrities. As photos throughout their headquarters prove, stars like Dame Helen Mirren and Martin Sheen have already gotten a hold of these goods. Others like Donatella Versace and Sally Field are so devoted that they regularly spend hundreds of dollars on it. Skillfully selling the products and the premise behind them are 3Lab's Public Relations Director, Stephanie Scott and President, Spencer Kanis - himself a celebrity in the beauty industry for his stylish wardrobe, smooth persona and resume full of blockbuster companies like Gucci and Estee Lauder. The most charismatic of the lot is David Chung, founder and CEO of 3Lab, whose personal story is as rich and rare as the ingredients found in his products.
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.
Couple on trial for murder of daughter
SCHWERIN, Germany: A German couple went on trial yesterday for the murder of their five-year-old daughter, who died last year of starvation after months of neglect in the family apartment.
The death last November of Lea-Sophie in the northern city of Schwerin prompted Chancellor Angela Merkel to appeal to Germans to check up on how their neighbours were treating their children.
The mother, 24, and father, 26, are accused of murder by omission and of abusing a person in care.
The mother declined to testify, but a statement from the father, read to the court by his lawyer, said: “I failed as a father." He said he had hoped the situation would come right by doing nothing.
Prosecutors say Lea-Sophie was unloved and already undernourished when the couple had a male baby in September 2007.
Young-Williams Animal Center looks to public for help
When Cotton and Lily met, they made an instant connection. Once the requisite circling and sniffing ended, the two dogs began wrestling with each other like longtime buddies. Lily's owner, Lisa Burchette, said she decided to adopt Cotton because she couldn't separate the two "soul mates." Burchette had brought her dog to Young-Williams Animal Center, 3201 Division St., because Lily needed a companion. Burchette said she chose to get the dog from the shelter because too many animals are euthanized for her to go buy one from a pet store. "I just hate to see that happen," she said. The managers at Young-Williams also hate it. The shelter is euthanizing more dogs and cats and taking in more unwanted animals than at any time since it opened in 2001. In fact, the numbers in both columns - euthanasias and intakes - have been climbing steadily, consistently, every year through 2007.
Tuna Salad a picnic tradition
When was the last time you went on a picnic? No — not picking up fast food somewhere. I mean a real picnic with real picnic food, and maybe even packed in a real picnic basket. I suppose that only those of us who are 50-plus remember life before there was a fast-food place on every corner to stop and "pick up something to eat." When we went on a trip whether it was for a day, a half-day, or only a couple of hours, we usually took a picnic lunch. A few times in the past few years I have driven past places that my family stopped for "picnic lunches" on the way to visit relatives in other parts of the state. These little roadside parks had only tables — not rest rooms, vending machines, and other conveniences. I can almost taste the delicious sandwiches, deviled eggs, and other goodies that we would spread out on the tables.
Mice can sense oxygen through their skin
Washington, Apr 18 : Training and testing of endurance athletes during the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing might take a dramatic turn as athletes would just have to expose their bodies to low levels of oxygen to boost their blood's oxygen-carrying capacity, which would ultimately perk up their performance, a team of researchers has suggested. .
Cardium's Innercool Therapies Unit Announces Publication Of Positive Effects Of Early And Rapid Hypothermia Following ...
Cardium Therapeutics (Amex: CXM) and its operating unit InnerCool Therapies announced that positive findings from a preclinical study, demonstrating a new and expanded benefit of early rapid hyperthermia (cooling) for the potential treatment of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), has been published online by BioMed Central (BMC) Cardiovascular Disorders (2008, 8:7, April 10, 2008).
The study, conducted by a team of interventional cardiologists at the Lund University Hospital, Sweden, evaluated the effect of early and rapid cooling induced by a combination of cold saline infusion along with InnerCool's endovascular Celsius Control(TM) System, before or immediately after reperfusion when coronary blood flow was restored in the heart in a porcine heart attack model. Results from this study demonstrated that rapid cooling (to Rapid & Early Cooling Heart Attack Preclinical Study Results
This study was designed to further investigate the therapeutic potential of early and rapid hypothermia to preserve heart tissue following a heart attack.
OceanGrown International (OGI) Establishes Green Based Charitable Commitment with OceanGrown Trust
Cause marketing to keep the world green and ocean blue. New company OceanGrown™ International (OGI) kicks off their charitable commitment, OceanGrown™ Trust on Earth Day with a promise to sustain and preserve our environment, specifically the ocean. Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) April 22, 2008 -- New company OceanGrown™ International (OGI) kicks off their charitable commitment, OceanGrown™ Trust on Earth Day with a promise to sustain and preserve our environment, specifically the ocean. OGI was founded with the belief that the ocean can offer beneficial natural resources, and realizes there is a delicate balance of give and take with the environment. OceanGrown™ Trust is a philosophy committed to living in harmony with this value. "The green movement is becoming much more than a trend - it's a revolution," said Kerry Brown, OGI Founder.
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