Advice Articles | December 20, 2008 If you could be assured of an acne medicine that absolutely worked on your acne symptoms, wouldn't you be willing to try it out.� There are several new breakthroughs that show real promise in treating acne. Acne medicine research has been a substantial pharmaceutical field for a decade or more.� The research has taken place in several arenas, but mostly in the area of antibiotics to control the bacteria, into identifying the causes of the condition, into the relationship between acne and hormone levels, and into the surgical treatments that are available for reducing or eliminating the physical signs and scarring of acne. In some areas, the breakthroughs have been substantial, but others are simply building one step or bit of information upon another. Information that is being studied may be positive in nature, i.e, to prove something to be true or it may accomplish a negative result, such as when a previously held opinion is proved to be incorre...