Abstract: In an embodiment, the current invention is a composition for oral or parenteral administrable taxane to treat cancer in human patients, comprising orally or parenterally co-administering to said patient a taxane comprising a derivative, an analog or a prodrug of paclitaxel or docetaxel, and bioavailability and efficacy enhancing agent comprising a piperlongumine. The present invention relates in its principal aspect to the oral or parenteral administration of one or a combination of taxanes to human patients suffering from cancer. In another embodiment, the current invention is a method of increasing the bioavailability of taxanes, which are poorly absorbed or not absorbed at all from the gastrointestinal tract or gut, by pre-administering and/or simultaneously administering to a human subject orally or parenterally one or a combination of agents (“enhancing agents”) effective in enhancing bioavailability by inhibiting CYP3A4 enzyme.

Abstract: A method is presented for treating an inflammatory skin disorder in a human comprising: topically applying to the skin a composition comprising alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (?MSH) or an ?MSH analog in an amount effective to reduce skin inflammation in the human.

Abstract: Methods and formulations for treating a condition of the skin by delivering therapeutic formulations to the skin that translocates active substances across the stratum corneum barrier to a targeted skin tissue. The methods and formulations comprise active substances encapsulated within surface modified nanostructured lipid carrier nanoparticles.

Abstract: Methods and formulations for treating a condition of the skin by delivering therapeutic formulations to the skin that translocates active substances across the stratum corneum barrier to a targeted skin tissue. The methods and formulations comprise active substances encapsulated within surface modified nanostructured lipid carrier nanoparticles.