| 2008 Patients Of Courage: Heroes Help Others After Lives Restored Through Plastic Surgery What would you do if half your face was ripped off by an IED (improvised explosive device); if you were born with a genetic condition that distorts your appearance and complicates life's simplest tasks; if, at age nine, your face was burned off; or, if you were diagnosed with breast cancer twice? Raising the white flag comes to mind. medicalnewstoday.com |
A Few Comparisons ... Not all Ultas are created equal. The woman who shaped my eyebrows for no charge at the makeover bar for Benefit Cosmetics in the new store in Monroe, N.Y., was skilled and gregarious. Across the store, four dozen hair dryers from pink to zebra-print were plugged in. All the better to know a dryer’s decibel level before committing. nytimes.com |
For Lashes, Blue Is Back If you came of age in the ’80s, chances are you had a brush with blue mascara. Well, blue is back, and then some. nytimes.com |
Engineering Breakthroughs: Artificial Retina, Defibrillator, 3-D Operations And More Five engineering breakthroughs, from restoring a degree of eyesight to developinng a new treatment for sudden cardiac arrest, were cited today by IEEE-USA, the U.S. career and public policy unit of the IEEE, the world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology. The five breakthroughs, as included in television news reports recently distributed to 83 subscribing U.S... mnt.to |
Health Reform Law Includes Changes To Breast Cancer Coverage, Education The federal health reform law (PL 111-148) includes a "little-noticed" provision that allocates $9 million annually for four years, starting in 2010, for programs to increase awareness about the risk of breast cancer in women ages 15 through 44, the Washington Post reports... mnt.to |