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Each year the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) collects statistics from cosmetic surgeons nationwide as to how many of the various procedures have been done. They then analyze and tabulate them and put them up on their website. The statistics for 2008 show an interesting switch between breast augmentation and liposuction. Previously, liposuction […]

When we breathe in, we take in oxygen which moves from the tiny air sacs in the lungs into arterial blood. When we eat, the digestive system breaks down the food into nutrients and waste products and the nutrients are absorbed into arterial blood. The heart pumps arterial blood throughout the body and oxygen and […]

In 2007 a Chinese newspaper got together with over 20 Chinese media groups and a medical group which offers cosmetic surgery. They set up China’s first campaign to help women who have been somehow disfigured but were too poor to pay for any reconstructive or cosmetic surgery. The campaign was called the China Rose Movement. […]

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) recently did a study of 186 pairs of identical twins to see if they could learn something about genetic factors vs environmental factors in aging. The researchers had the twins fill out comprehensive questionnaires and they obtained digital photographs of each twin. An independent panel examined the photos […]

Aging, pregnancy, and breastfeeding all take their toll on the breasts. The skin is stretched when the breasts grow larger for childbirth and milk production. In a younger woman it will usually shrink back again when milk production stops, and the breasts will have their previous youthful appearance. But with age, skin gradually loses its […]

Health insurance does not typically cover any cosmetic procedure unless there’s also a convincing health reason for the procedure. An example of that would be a rhinoplasty done both for recontouring of the nose and improvement of breathing such as correcting a deviated septum. There are some ways of reducing your potential surgery costs. Choose […]

Pregnancy and childbirth make a lot of changes in a woman’s body. Breastfeeding makes more changes. By the time it is all over, many women look in the mirror and wonder who that person is, so different does she look from their previous image. A Mommy Makeover is designed to restore as much of your […]

When the economy slows down and shrinks, as it has been doing lately, discounts become more frequent and more attractive. You may have seen some advertising for low-price BOTOX treatments or cheap skin treatments using dermal fillers like Restylane®. Perhaps you have also seen recent news about Heparin imported from China which caused deaths and […]

The term anesthesia was coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1846 and comes from two Greek words meaning “without sensation”. An anesthetic is not the same as an analgesic. We buy many analgesics over-the-counter, such as ibuprofen and acetaminophen and they block the sensation of pain. There are also prescription analgesics. Anesthesia is a broader […]

The February issue of the journal Ophthalmology has the findings of a study done on how people judge age and fatigue. The participants were 47 college students in the Boston area. They were asked to look on a computer monitor at photos of 48 older people and rate either the age or the fatigue level […]