A young father who was terribly disfigured in an electrical accident showed off his new look Monday alongside doctors who performed the United States’ first full face transplant. Visibly moved as he described how his young daughter called him “handsome” and how the first whiff of hospital food was so tantalizing, 26-year-old Dallas Wiens said [...]
Youth and beauty will always be in fashion. This makes the interest to Botox injections remain acute for many years. Wrinkles-free face looks youthful and charming. There is much debate about Botox, some good, some bad. Its application in cosmetology is a great achievement but not a miracle. It does have certain disadvantages. In 1970, [...]
Old tobacco smoke does more than simply make a room smell stale — it can leave cancer-causing toxins behind, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They found cancer-causing agents called tobacco-specific nitrosamines stick to a variety of surfaces, where they can get into dust or be picked up on the fingers. Children and infants are the [...]
Ever feel as if you’ve aged ten years overnight? New research shows this might not be just paranoia. While it used to be thought ageing was gradual, scientists now believe we have a tipping point when we suddenly lose the battle to hold back the years. In a study of 100 Japanese women aged between [...]
Plastic surgery can help you change completely, giving you a different nose or different eye shape. Yet, doctors argue that those who resort to plastic surgery suffer from low self-esteem. They recommend consulting a psychiatrist prior to going a surgery route. “Mostly people come to us when they are not happy with the way they [...]
A new study confirms that smoking raises a person’s risks of the major forms of esophageal and stomach cancers, while drinking has more narrow effects. In a study that followed more than 120,000 Dutch adults for 16 years, researchers found that smoking increased the risk of the two main forms of stomach cancer, as well [...]
Dieting to lose weight may not help older overweight adults to live longer, but losing a little weight on purpose also does not seem to cause any harm, according to a study. Previous studies had raised concerns that losing weight might be harmful to older adults, since some research had linked dropping weight to a [...]
Increasing the intake of olive oil may reduce the risk of suffering from ulcerative colitis, a new study suggest. The new findings were presented on Saturday at the Digestive Disease Week conference in New Orleans. Researchers at the University of East Anglia’s School of Medicine in the United Kingdom followed more than 25,000 people, aged [...]
A consortium of cancer researchers has identified four chromosome locations with genetic changes that are likely to alter a woman’s risk of developing ovarian cancer. The findings appear Sunday in an article in Nature Genetics. Researchers say that while more needs to be learned about the function of the specific chromosomal regions involved in susceptibility, [...]
US regulators on Friday approved the first new treatment for hepatitis C in more than a decade, a Merck pharmaceutical known as Victrelis, to be taken with the current two-drug regimen. Also known as boceprevir, the drug is a protease inhibitor that prevents the liver-disease causing virus from multiplying and studies have shown it “significantly” [...]
Anxiety may modify depression for better or for worse, indicating a link between the two, U.S. researchers suggest. By using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), researchers at the University of Illinois looked at brain activity in subjects who were depressed and not anxious, anxious but not depressed, or who exhibited varying degrees of depression and [...]
If they occur, surgeons have to perform operations on little babies. Needless to say that it is impossible to find out, whether such a baby would like to grow as a man or a woman. Fortunately, doctors rarely come across cases of abnormal sexual differentiation – the term that is now applied to the phenomenon [...]
