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Chemical peels are a common treatment for acne scars, but a Rutgers study finds that microneedling is significantly more effective for patients with dark skin. Babar Rao, a professor of dermatology and pathology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and fellow researchers randomly assigned 60 patients with acne scars and dark skin—Fitzpatrick Skin Phototype IV to VI—to treatment with either 35 percent glycolic acid chemical peels or microneedling, both administered every two weeks for 12 weeks. Microneedling is a cosmetic procedure involving tiny, sterilized needles that pierce the skin to stimulate collagen production and reduce scarring. Chemical peels involve applying...

“I believe this is the right thing to do, and something that most Singaporeans will now accept,” Lee Hsien Loong said in his annual national day rally speech.

The Modern Survivalist (TMS) LIVE STREAM NOTIFICATION - Matt Bracken and Host Fernando Aguirre. Note: Videos are usually taken down from youtube as soon as the livecast is over (depending on content that could offend the leftist narrative) and they are moved to Odysee. This link may only work for the livestream. Use the link below for the Odysee backup channel to find the archive and view later if the youtube link does not work. Broadcast from Spain and Florida, U.S.A. Join us today as we talk with Matt Bracken about current events and how to be better prepared! Make...

Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) on Sunday said she plans to support Democratic candidates in their races against Republicans who are denying the results of the 2020 election after she lost her own primary election in a landslide last week. “I’m going to be very focused on working to ensure that we do everything we can not to elect election deniers,” she said during an appearance on ABC’s This Week. “We’ve got election deniers that have been nominated for really important positions all across the country,” she said. “And I’m going to work against those people. I’m going to work...

For children born preterm with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), those attending day care have increased likelihood of emergency department visits and systemic steroid usage, according to a study. Sharon A. McGrath-Morrow, M.D. and colleagues obtained day care attendance and clinical outcomes via standardized instruments for 341 individuals recruited from nine BPD specialty clinics. All individuals were former preterm infants (<34 weeks) with BPD requiring outpatient follow-up from 0 to 3 years. The researchers found that the likelihood of having emergency department visits and systemic steroid usage was increased for children with BPD attending day care. In addition, compared with children not...

(CNN)First lady Jill Biden on Sunday will leave isolation in South Carolina for Delaware after testing negative for Covid-19, according to her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander. "After isolating for five days and receiving negative results from two consecutive COVID-19 tests, the First Lady will depart South Carolina later today for Delaware," Alexander said in a written statement.

The conservatives at Fox News called it “discrimination.” The neo-confederates at the Heritage Foundation said it “violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause.” A headline in the official digital outlet of white nationalism asks: “Aren’t We Better Than Minneapolis Teachers Union’s Fire Whites First’ Policy?” They are referring to the newest issue in the white outrage industrial complex, a contract between Minneapolis Public Schools and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers. The conservative media has latched on to the plan as yet another example of the rising oppression of Caucasian America. According to the collectively...

In an age of elevated awareness of the possible threats we face, there lies before us another example of what not to do. This is the tragic story of one Adam Bies of Mercer County PA, who allowed his emotions to manifest itself into social media posts that not only has him in legal hot water, but only adds fuel to propaganda fire the opposition is currently stoking. We should use events like these as sad, yet teachable moments for the rest of us.And with that, class is in session. But first, the background…According to the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, on or...

Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner said the 2021 Capitol riot was unexpected and that the president would’ve tried to prevent violence from happening if he had knowledge of it. –snip– “What is clear to me is that no one at the White House expected violence that day. I’m confident that if my colleagues or the president had anticipated violence, they would have prevented it from happening,” Mr. Kushner wrote. Mr. Kushner……blamed the rioters for making a mockery of the Trump movement and allowing the public to promote a narrative that labeled his supporters as “crazed and violent thugs.”...

Arizona state House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R), who testified before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, said that the Constitution is “hanging by a thread” after he lost his bid for a state Senate seat. Bowers in an interview with The Guardian described his phone conversations with former President Trump and Trump’s campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani in the aftermath of the 2020 election, adding that the Republican Party has embraced “emotional violence.” “The Constitution is hanging by a thread,” Bowers told The Guardian. “The funny thing is, I always thought it would be...

Fake "News" can trumpet that "U.S. Companies on Pace to Bring Home Record Number of Overseas Jobs" because the job of sending jobs offshore & cutting remaining wages in half by making women work has been completely done. West German leader Hulmut Schmidt gave a speech in 1975 about the need to dismantle Fordism, high tariffs, strong Main St / Detroit (vs. Wall St.) and high wages, a working wage so a man could earn enough for the woman to stay home nurturing the kids instead of farming them out to heartless childcare. See 'When Mitt Romney Came to Town'...

Outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that there was now a “bond” that will last forever with her House Republican colleagues who voted to impeach Donald Trump. ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl said, “This wasn’t just losing a House seat. You were in leadership, considered a future speaker of the House, maybe even the next speaker of the House. It’s a lot to give up. Any regrets?”

NBC anchor Chuck Todd said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that a new NBC News poll finds “Americans are angry” with a graphic showing 74% of those polled say the country is on the wrong track. Todd said, “We are less than three months before the Midterms and our brand new NBC News poll paints a pretty bleak picture. Americans are angry. They are disappointed, and they are worried about the future of this country.”

Outgoing CNN anchor Brian Stelter started the final episode of “Reliable Sources” on Sunday by saying that the show was a small but mighty “one-of-a-kind.” Stelter said, “One of the biggest media stories of the week is right here. It’s the end of this show. CNN has canceled ‘Reliable Sources.’ Yes, the longest-running program on the network. I have a lot of thoughts about it but am going to save those for later this hour. As most of you know, CNN has a new owner. Warner Brothers Discovery is making big changes across the company. And there’s going to be...

Car bombs used to be a fixture of gangland feuds in 1990s Russia but have since fallen out of fashion. This makes it all the more striking when, as happened last night, such a device rips through a car just outside Moscow, killing Darya Dugina, daughter of the controversial nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin. She was prominent figure in her own right, a journalist working for an outfit Washington says is owned by Russian businessman Evgeny Prigozhin – under sanctions in the West for being the godfather of both the Wagner mercenary group and the infamous social media ‘troll farms’ –...

American democracy is changing right now in important and optimistic ways in red and blue states. Anger at the lack of choices in the two-party system fueled the ranked-choice voting experiment in reliably Republican Alaska, which pairs with a similar experiment in the liberal haven of New York City. In ranked-choice voting, voters rank candidates in order of preference. Learn about the entire process. There is ranked-choice voting in Maine. There are nonpartisan primaries in California and technically no primary at all in Louisiana. While political parties are consolidating their power with redistricting in states where they can – Texas...

This year's drought conditions are taking a harder toll than last year's, as 37% of farmers said they are plowing through and killing existing crops that won't reach maturity because of dry conditions. That's a jump from 24% last year, according to the survey. July was the third-hottest on record for the U.S. and ranked in the top 10 for every state in the West except for Montana, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's weekly weather and crop bulletin ending the week of Aug. 6 reported "rapidly intensifying drought gripped the central and...

The health benefits of sardines may include the prevention of heart diseases and age-related macular degeneration. They may also help strengthen bones, boost the immune system, improve insulin resistance, and rejuvenate the skin. What are Sardines? [We are about to tell you!]Sardines are small, oily fish that belong to the family called Clupeidae. They are also known by the name pilchards in some places. They generally come in the form of canned fish and are commonly known as canned sardines. Although they are regarded as a single species, there are actually 21 types of fish that fall under the category...

VIDEOYou have probably heard the words "Crossfire Hurricane" a lot recently in regards to the main reason why the FBI raided President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago. However, the interesting thing is that you absolutely don't hear liberals saying those words anymore. It is my conclusion that no liberal is now capable of saying those taboo words although other people such as those in this video are perfectly capable of saying it.

On this date in 1497, five Florentines were beheaded for a seditious conspiracy, headlined by the scion of one of the city’s leading families. Our scene is the Italian city-state of Florence, during the 20-year intrregnum with the Medici family out of power. Lorenzo the Magnificent had died in 1492; his much less magnificent son and successor Piero the Unfortunate was expelled in 1494. For the time being the Dominican cleric Savonarola holds sway; after his fall a few months hence, it would briefly be Machiavelli’s humanist republic. For these years the Medici schemed from exile, and Florentines guarded warily...