Abstract: A method for providing suggestions for maintaining personal hygiene of a user is provided. The method includes receiving hygiene data associated with the user from at least one source in response to detecting an activity, determining a hygiene category of the activity among a plurality of hygiene categories based on the hygiene data, and preprocessed hygiene data associated with the user, determining a type of the activity among a plurality of types of activities based on the hygiene data and the hygiene category, determining an impact level of the activity on the personal hygiene of the user based on the hygiene category, and the type of the activity, and providing one or more suggestions for maintaining the personal hygiene to the user based on the impact level, the hygiene data, the hygiene category, and the activity.

Abstract: The present invention provides for improved therapeutic regimens for treating benign hyperproliferative diseases and cancers. The Egr-1 promoter, long known to be radiation-responsive, has now been shown to be inducible for DNA damaging chemical agents, many of which themselves are used in therapies. Thus, the present invention provides for the advantageous combination of a DNA damaging chemical and an expression vector containing a therapeutic gene driven by the Egr-1 promoter.