| Isolagen sells Swiss site to Swatch
Isolagen Inc. said Monday that it sold its site in Switzerland for $6.4 million. A spokesman for the Exton, Pa., based skin-care products company (AMEX:ILE) said the site is an empty warehouse that was part of the company's discontinued operations. The buyer was Switzerland-based watch manufacturer the Swatch Group, the spokesman said. Chairman Nicholas L. Teti Jr. said the proceeds "will enable us to further pursue the implementation of our business plan for 2008." Isolagen sells anti-aging and acne treatment products and is developing treatments for acne scars and wrinkles that would involve tissue rejuvenation. .
Microbial Resistance Towards Antibiotics: Still A Critical Issue
ECCMID Opening Press Conference. "The problem of antibiotic resistance continues to grow and this is mainly a consequence of longstanding misuse and abuse of antimicrobial agents", said Prof. Fernando Baquero, Congress President (Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid). Among all the pathogens, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a frequent culprit in infections (mainly respiratory, urinary or skin infections) in hospital settings and nursing homes. Despite this, the general public is unfamiliar with this threat (F. Verhoeven et al. - ECCMID abstract no.1387) and unaware that MRSA can contaminate not only patients' rooms and healthcare workers, but also the environment outside hospitals, including houses or workplaces.
"Bacterial resistance to antibiotics commonly used in children is already a critical problem because we cannot use all the antibiotics commonly available for use in adults for the treatment of children", pointed out Prof.
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The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center, 2912 17th St., at St. Cloud Regional Medical Center will open Monday.
The center will use advanced wound-care techniques to heal wounds that have resisted traditional treatment.
Physicians and clinicians will work with patients and their physicians to provide advanced treatments from bioengineered skin dressings to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
"Every wound is unique," center director Reed Stephan said. "While the causes of chronic nonhealing wounds can be complex, our multidisciplinary team of physicians and clinicians has received extensive training in the latest advances in wound care and hyperbaric medicine. We develop a personalized treatment plan for each patient. Whatever it takes for healing to occur, we're equipped and staffed to make it happen."
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