Articles from July 2007 ↓

It is nice to see that slowly newspaper articles on rosacea are becoming more informed. One might even think that they are surfing the net to see what new information is out there. Sydney’s Sunday Daily Telegraph: Skin care, How to combat Rosacea, Seeing red by Matthew Thompson, I can sympathize with this quote from Deborah ; The unwelcome comments I received over many years for my red …

It is not only rosacea that is interested in how VEGF affects blood vessels and thus how a disease that is related to blood vessels progresses. The `wet` type of macular degeneration is associated with the growth of abnormal blood vessels. Thus there may well be some common areas of research between rosacea and macular degeneration. In macular degeneration the blood vessels supplying the …

An interesting thread over at the Rosacea Forum to do with the safety of taking melanotan. Steve, who is using Melanotan himself, points to a thread on a Melanotan message board where Robert is reporting some issues with gradual onset vision problems ; My name is Robert, I’m 23 and I had been using MT 2 for over 1 year with great …

In a 10 year study highlighted by the BBC, organic tomatoes were found to contain twice the levels of flavonoids compared with commonly grown tomatoes. Organic food ‘better’ for heart Flavonoids have been shown to reduce high blood pressure, lowering the risk of heart disease and stroke. Writing in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the team said nitrogen in the soil …

A clinical trial, sponsored by CollaGenex, is recruiting patients to see how Oracea compares to doxycycline (100mg once a day) when combined with metrogel 1%. We can see from a Collagenex annual report that COL-101 was the name for Periostat MR, which then became Oracea. Safety and Efficacy Study to Compare Two Rosacea Treatment Regimens Purpose: To compare the safety and efficacy of two treatment …