| 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.
UNC volunteers mark 40 years of free care
Anna McCullough was only three or four weeks into her master's program at the UNC School of Social Work when she volunteered at a Carrboro free clinic run by students from the School of Medicine and other medicine-related disciplines taught at UNC.But she remembers helping a patient in mental crisis feel more stable that first night and linking him to resources that could assist him."I thought, 'This is what it's all about,' " McCullough said.On Sunday, McCullough invited current and former student volunteers and the faculty who support them to a celebration at the Carrboro ArtsCenter, marking 40 years of the Student Health Action Coalition, known as SHAC.The organization runs a free medical clinic every Wednesday night in the Piedmont Health Services clinic in Carrboro and a twice-weekly dental clinic in Carr Mill Mall.SHAC has made its place in history by being the longest existing student-run free clinic in the United States, said Jim Emory, who researched the history for his master's degree in public health.SHAC is unique in its interdisciplinary approach and its community-service focus, Emory said.
Father charged with killing kids was ‘nearly dead’
The manhunt is over for a father accused of killing his three young children in British Columbia. Allan Dwayne Schoenborn, 40, was “almost dead" when a trapper found him Wednesday morning in the woods outside of Merritt, a small town in the province's Interior. .
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