Night Cream Guide and Review

Many women skip applying a night cream thinking that it cannot enhance their complexion in any way. But a night cream can help you to attain smooth, soft and blemish free skin. A night cream contains more potent ingredients than regular day creams and moisturizers. In addition to this, our skin's elevated temperature during the night makes it easier for the cream to get absorbed by the skin. Many people think that a night cream is only for mature women who are fighting the signs of aging like fine lines and wrinkles. But even women in their 20s need a good night cream to keep skin supple and moisturized. There are thousands of night creams available in the market that claims to prevent wrinkles, crow's feet, dark spots and fine lines. However not all of these night creams are effective. To help you find the perfect night cream, here we have compiled reviews of some of the best night creams.

Best Night Cream- Reviews

As mentioned earlier, not all night creams are created equal. If you have a specific skin problem like wrinkles, dark spots or dull skin that you would like to address, then purchase a night cream that specifically meant for that. A night cream that is meant for smoothening wrinkles will not help in fading acne scars. So it is very important that you choose a night cream according to your skin's requirement. Given below are night cream reviews to help you choose the perfect one for your skin.

Clinique Repairwear Lift Firming Night Cream
This night cream is meant for mature women over the age of 35. It is an anti aging night cream that deeply hydrates the skin, making it look plump and smooth. It contains retinol and vitamin E that helps to increase cells turnover, leaving you with visibly smoother skin and a brighter and even complexion. It comes in two variants, one for oily to combination skin and another for dry skin.

Elizabeth Arden Intervene Stress Recovery Night Cream
Elizabeth Arden Intervene Stress Recovery Night Cream is a light night cram that has a non greasy formula. It gets instantly absorbed by the skin and it helps to eliminate fine lines and keep wrinkles away. It is deeply hydrating and with regular use you will see a brighter skin tone with firmer and smoother skin. This skin tightening cream also helps to minimize the appearance of large pores and it protects your skin from stress and pollution. This night cream is perfect for women in their 30s, as it will help in delaying the signs of aging.

L'Oréal Paris Collagen Moisture Filler Night Cream
If you are looking for a night cream that will nourish, hydrate and protect your skin, then L'Oréal Paris Collagen Moisture Filler Night Cream is just right for you. It helps to smooth out wrinkles and fine lines and also reverse sun damage. It contains shea butter and silicone cyclohexasiloxane which moisturizes the skin and helps to fill up fine lines, giving skin a plump effect. Used regularly this skin firming face cream will help you to look radiant with an even complexion.

Garnier Nutritioniste Ultra-Lift Pro Deep Wrinkle Night Cream
Garnier Nutritioniste Ultra-Lift Pro Deep Wrinkle Night Cream is a great night cream for aging skin that has deep wrinkles and dark spots. It contains Pro-Xylane, which stimulates the production of collagen in the skin making skin look smooth and erasing deep set lines. The silicone and glycerin present in this anti aging cream plumps up the skin instantly, making it look smooth and wrinkle free. The best thing about this night cream is that it has deep hydrating properties that helps to improve the elasticity of mature skin.

Revaléskin Night Cream
One of the best night creams for 20s is Revaléskin Night Cream. It contains aloe vera and algae extract that helps to minimize the appearance of sun spots, dark spots and enlarged pores. As women in their 20s do not suffer from any wrinkles and fine lines, the regular application of this deeply hydrating cream will delay the onset of wrinkles.

The Body Shop Nutriganics Smoothing Night Cream
This night cream from The Body Shop has a very rich creamy formulation that is ideal for normal to dry skin. Although it has a rich texture, it is instantly absorbed by the skin. This cream contains babassu oil, organic coconut oil and organic olive oil that hydrates the skin and makes it smooth and supple. With regular use of this wonderful night cream, fine lines and wrinkles are smoothed and skin's elasticity is greatly improved.

Applying a good night cream that is suitable for your skin texture will help to keep your skin youthful and radiant. Always choose a night cream keeping your skin type and condition in mind. If you are suffering from under eye dark circles, wrinkles and puffiness, then you should use an under eye cream in addition to a night cream to get rid of under eye wrinkles and crow's feet.

University Hospital files suit saying it is not public; could affect merger, open records

 Attorney General Jack Conway may have ruled it a public entity and thus subject to open-records laws, but University Hospital officials are insisting that's not the case and have filed a lawsuit saying it should not have to turn over documents to, among others, The Courier-Journal.

The implications go beyond the records issue and could affect the merger between University Hospital, Saint Joseph Health System and Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare. A public governmental entity cannot favor one religion over another, under the state constitution. But if the merger goes through, all three health systems would be subject to certain Catholic health directives, such as those pertaining to sterilization, because Saint Joseph is owned by Catholic Health Initiatives.

"A ruling in the public-records case that University Hospital is a public entity will bolster the arguments of those opposed to the merger, while a ruling that it isn't a public entity will favor merger supporters," reports Dan Klepal of The Courier-Journal.

The lawsuit argues that University Hospital is a private, nonprofit corporation "because it is controlled by a board of directors, not the University of Louisville," Klepal reports. U of L board members also cannot constitute a majority at any board or committee meetings; the hospital selects its own CEO; and manages its own finances and daily operations.

The suit further points to the fact that former Attorney General Greg Stumbo ruled it was not a public entity in 2006. "But that ruling was made when two private companies, Norton Healthcare and Jewish & St. Mary's, were still partners with U of L in governing the facility. The following year, Norton and Jewish withdrew, leaving U of L as the hospital's only overseer," Klepal reports. (Read more)

Louisville hospital merger would be just one of dozens across the country, driven by economic and regulatory concerns

Hospitals are banding together to create organizations better able to withstand the changing tides of the economy and health-care policy. The proposed merger of Louisville's Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare, Lexington-based Saint Joseph Health System and University Hospital at the University of Louisville is just one of many examples.

"The small, community hospital is soon to go the way of the dinosaurs," said Angela Mattie, associate professor of health-care management of Connecticut's Quinnipiac University, told Laura Ungar of The Courier-Journal.

Through September, 2011 had seen 71 mergers nationwide involving 132 hospitals worth $6.9 billion, plus another four deals in October. In all of last year, there were 74 mergers involving 126 hospitals and $5.8 billion, Ungar reports.

The poor economy is part of the reason for hospital systems merging because "people don't use hospitals as often; even those with insurance sometimes forego care to avoid co-pays," Ungar reports. In a tight economy, credit is more difficult to obtain, but bigger, richer systems have less trouble. Finances are a major impetus behind the big Louisville merger, with officials at University Hospital and Jewish arguing "if they don't merge they'll lack the money to make improvements going forward, partly because of economic pressures such as rising levels of indigent care," Ungar reports.

Catholic Health Initiatives, which owns the Saint Joseph Health System, plans to invest $320 million "to launch the merged network and strengthen its balance sheet," said CHI spokeswoman Mary Elise Biegert. Of another $300 million that would be generated by operations, two-thirds would be invested in Louisville's academic health center and $100 million would help pay for a switch to electronic health records.

Experts also say big systems have more bargaining power with health insurers, nd the federal health-care reform law means "It makes sense to enlarge a hospital system to capture as many as possible of the 30 million Americans expected to eventually be newly insured under the new law," Ungar writes.

Mergers also allow hospitals to consolidate and save costs, "by having one human resource or finance department instead of three," Ungar reports. (Read more) For another story on what has been termed "merger mania," click here.

Beshear appoints panel to identify docs with suspicious prescribing practices

Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed a panel that will help identify the state's health providers who are prescribing a suspicious amount of pain pills. The move is to help combat the prescription-pill abuse in Kentucky.

"The panel is made up of four practicing physicians, including a psychiatrist, a pain-management specialist and an oncologist; three pharmacists; an advance-practice registered nurse; a dentist; a substance-abuse and mental-health professional from the University of Kentucky faculty; and a representative of community mental-health centers, which provide drug treatment," reports Bill Estep of the Lexington Herald-Leader.

The inclusion of an APRN is in keeping with a request from the Kentucky Coalition of Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives. "We believe that the addition of APRNs who are prescribing controlled substances for different populations will be very helpful ... in creating guidelines for generally accepted practices," said Julianne Ewen, president of the 2,049-member coalition.

The council will use the state's prescription-monitoring system — known as KASPER — that is already in place and will work with the state's health-care licensing boards and law enforcement to establish acceptable prescribing practices. "For instance, it may be routine for a cancer doctor to write 50 prescriptions for pain pills in a month, but that would be very high for a dentist," Estep reports.

The work of the panel could be used by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to track unusual activity through KASPER. The cabinet would then notify the applicable licensing boards of the activity. (Read more)

Prescription pill abuse has been a growing concern in Kentucky and nationwide, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently calling the problem "an epidemic." On Friday, police arrested three people that were allegedly part of a larger drug ring that trucked more than 50,000 pain pills into Pike County alone last year. The pills came from Michigan. "Many people in Eastern Kentucky have relatives in Michigan because people moved from Appalachia decades ago to look for work in Midwest factories," Estep reports. "People work through those family connections to bring drugs to Kentucky after obtaining pills in Michigan through large-scale 'doctor shopping.'" (Read more)