Illegal Botox Scammers a Public Threat
from San Antonio Business Journal
 Cheaper, unbranded, unapproved and counterfeit cosmetic injectables are a threat to your looks and your health warns the Physicians Coalition for Injectable Safety. "The growing acceptance of cosmetic injections for their good outcomes and convenience in treatment comes with consumer cautions," says Coalition leader, plastic surgeon Jeffrey Kenkel, MD, of Dallas. In the period between 2004 and July 2008 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) entered in 210 investigations that led to 68 arrests and 29 convictions of health care professionals who purposely injected an unapproved, cheaper substitute toxin for FDA-approved Botox Cosmetic into nearly 1,000 unknowing patients. Specifically what is injected and by whom are important details no consumer should take casually. More
The Sum of Your Facial Parts
from The New York Times
A new computer program that uses a mathematical formula to alter the original form of an image into a theoretically more attractive version, while maintaining what programmers call an “unmistakable similarity” to the original has been produced. The software program, developed by computer scientists in Israel, is based on the responses of 68 men and women, age 25 to 40, from Israel and Germany, who viewed photographs of white male and female faces and picked the most attractive ones. More
We’ll All Need Work When the World Goes HD
from The News Leader
Nobody's perfect. That why for the rest of us there's cosmetic surgery, makeup judiciously applied, proper lighting, and enough distance to keep things a little fuzzy and out of perspective. I know it's expensive, but if we're lucky, it'll be worth it because we can get by with the fragile illusion of perfection. Except if we're on television. You didn't notice it before with the tiny screens, poor reception and old-fashioned sets, but with the new huge high-definition models that switch from analog to digital, everybody from TV anchors to movie stars to Mr. Food looks terrible. No more static, snow and interference. Just the naked truth magnified to gargantuan proportions. More
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Baldness Gene Discovered: One in Seven at Risk
from Science Daily
Researchers at McGill University, King's College London and GlaxoSmithKline Inc. have identified two genetic variants in Caucasians that together produce an astounding sevenfold increase the risk of male pattern baldness. About a third of all men are affected by male pattern baldness by age 45. The condition's social and economic impact is considerable: expenditures for hair transplantation in the United States alone exceeded $115 million (U.S.) in 2007, while global revenues for medical therapy for male-pattern baldness recently surpassed $405 million. More
The Perfect Filler Still Elusive Despite a Myriad of Choices
from Cosmetic Surgery Times
The definitive safety of a dermal filler needs to be proven to the FDA in no uncertain terms, a fact reflected in the sometimes arduous road to approval. Because of this strict process, overseas physicians may seem to have an advantage over their U.S. colleagues, as receiving a CE mark can be somewhat easier to achieve. This results in more devices — thus more aesthetic options — for cosmetic practitioners abroad than their U.S. counterparts have. However, the strict FDA guidelines sometimes justify their rigidity when some European fillers that at first promise a high safety profile later demonstrate unwanted adverse events. More
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