| A Tupperware Party for the Body Home spa treatment products appear to be growing in popularity as the economy worsens. nytimes.com |
Banking on a Chemical Reaction Cosmetics makers are using pheromones to tweak the rules of attraction. nytimes.com |
Cosmetic Eyelid Surgery Can Boost Quality Of Life For Patients Cosmetic surgery that repairs droopy eyelids, also known as blepharoplasty, has an overall positive impact on patients' quality of life (QOL). In a paper presented at the 2009 American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO in San Diego, researchers administered a retrospective questionnaire survey of 26 adult patients undergoing bilateral upper and lower lid cosmetic blepharoplasty. medicalnewstoday.com |
At 101, Patient Is Nation's Oldest Transcatheter Heart Valve Replacement When Doris Snyder celebrated her 102nd birthday on August 10, she was that much closer to the expected birth of her first great-granddaughter who's due to arrive early September. She is very excited about the milestone, which might not have been possible were it not for a cutting-edge, experimental procedure that replaced one of Doris' heart valves weeks earlier when she was 101... mnt.to |
Surgeons Create Functional Artificial Pancreatic Tissue Surgeons from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, are reporting on a whole new strategy for controlling insulin dependent diabetes without daily injections of insulin. The surgeons have bio-engineered a novel matrix that serves as a scaffold for seeding supportive stem cells as well as pancreatic islets (the cells that produce insulin in the pancreas)... mnt.to |