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Here are few very interesting and curious questions that you would surely like to read about. Still many of these quesries remain doubtful to the scientists of the world. And others remain to be read by most of us since they can affect our lives in a much drammatic manner. Just have a look at each of the questions, and you can find the answer in any of the links given under each of them.

Introducing you all, the all new and innovative laser that works on Carbon Dioxide and can be used safely for wound closure after surgery or accidents and be applied to seal cuts inside the body.

Conditioners

1. Moisturizers

Moisturizers are products containing humectants. These compounds attract and hold moisture into the hair. These mainly serve to hydrate the hair.

Recommendations: Sunset Hair Elements Moisture Plus

This blog is meant to provide brief information about few cosmetic products. I hope you would find this blog useful and ofcourse, comments are welcome!  

1. Hair Gels

After bringing up the blog on hormonal acne, this time I'ld like to concentrate upon the treatments most commonly involved in medical practice by a physician or a pharmacist. Basically, few generics are employed in acne as cited below along with the details:

1. Erythromycin

It has been used as the 2nd most common antibiotic against acne. It is commonly employed as 250-500 mg tablets to be taken twice a day. It not only kills the bacterium responsible for causing acne (P. acnes), but also acts as anti-inflammatory agent and reduces the redness (rubor) caused due to acne.

Erythromycin is also available as topical preparations as Erythromycin gel, ointment etc. It is available as 2 % preparation.

Usually, erythromycin causes slight irritation on application. Oral dose of erythromycin causes stomach upset and nausea. However, unlike isotretinoin, erythromycin is well-tolerated and safe to use in pregnant women.

Details about the drug

Just as the brain is known by its ability to control the body, similarly eye has been exploited to an extent to make it call by its ability to diagnose most of the health hazards.

The unconventional high-tech eye scans can be employed to detect the potential health hazards. Detecting few of the common known eye diseases like cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration etc. can be effective indicators to know an underlying patient health problem. The tests offered by high street opticians and optometrists provide high-quality images and thus improve chances of detecting conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke, diabetes and brain tumors.

Since the eye has a huge potential as a means of diagnosing illness early, wherein internal blood vessels and nerves can be viewed working undisturbed, a lot of opticians are embracing this and have exploited its commercial and diagnostic potential.

This short blog is intended to provide the information on the role of hormones in acne appearance and the involved causal factors. Comments are welcome!

Acne is particularly precipated by the hormone, androgen present in both males and females. This is because the hormone helps in maturation of sebaceous glands. This hormone causes acne by creating an oil plug, thereby clogging the hair follicles. This oil plug provides a favourable environment for the acne bacteria, Propionibacterium acne to grow. This resultantly creates acne pimples and blemishes. Besides the androgen, progesterone has also been reported to cause maturation of sebaceous (oil) glands.

1. Eating hastily makes you overweight

http://www.medindia.com/news/Eating-Fast-Makes-You-Super-sized-43204-1.htm
http://womenshealth.about.com/od/girlshealth101/a/fastfoodteenwei.htm

2. Stress during pregnancy makes the neonates underdeveloped with attention and learning deficits

http://www.medindia.com/news/Stress-During-Pregnancy-may-Have-Adverse-Im...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jan/27/health.healthandwellbeing
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14033938

3. Erectile dysfunction drug, Tadalafil effective in curing blood vessel narrowing in Rheumatic disease

http://www.medindia.com/news/Erectile-Dysfunction-Drug-may-Help-to-Treat...
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/31620

4. Smoking cessation reduces levels of C-reactive proteins, thereby helping to mitigate Rheumatoid Arthritis

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/144/6/537

Here are few questionnaires that would help you away to test the knowledge on cancer, heart and fertility besides testing the IQ and EQ. Hope it would be of some help to you.

1. Quiz on Cancer

http://www.medindia.net/medical-quiz/quiz-on-cancer.asp
http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/cancer-center-quizzes

2. Quiz on Heart

http://www.medindia.net/medical-quiz/quiz-on-heart.asp
http://training.seer.cancer.gov/module_anatomy/unit7_5_quiz_dd_01.html
http://www.saheart.net/quiz/index.asp

3. Quiz on infertility

http://www.medindia.net/medical-quiz/quiz-on-infertility.asp
http://www.fertilityjourney.com/fjquiz/index.asp

4. Quiz on Pharmacy Knowledge

http://www.download.com/Pharmacy-Quiz-2006/3000-2129_4-10583926.html

Pharmacology Questionnnaires-

http://medtrng.com/pharmacology_quizzes.htm

5. Quiz on IQ

http://www.testcafe.com/iqtest/

6. Quiz on EQ

http://quiz.ivillage.co.uk/uk_work/tests/eqtest.htm

A chronic disease can cure a cancer well enough; indeed a new study conducted by scientists of Medical College of Georgia have employed a potential defence mechanism- inflammation, triggered by the body itself to cure cancer.

Methodology

The researchers dosed a mice with a potential carcinogen concurrently with a poison ivy derivative applied over a small portion of skin twice in a week for 20 weeks.

IDO

Indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) is an immunomodulatory enzyme secreted by some alternatively activated macrophages and other immunoregulatory cells.