Surgeons Say Recipient of Face Transplant 'Is Doing Well'
from The Washington Post
Surgeons recently provided details of the first face transplant done in the United States, a painstaking 22-hour operation to stitch most of a dead woman's face onto a recipient so horribly disfigured that she was willing to undergo the risky surgery in the hopes of being able to smile, smell, eat and breathe normally again. "I'm very proud and emotional to share with you what we finally did," said Maria Siemionow, the reconstructive surgeon who led the team. "The patient is doing well. . . . I must tell you how happy she was when with both her hands she could go over her face and feel that she has a nose, feel that she has a jaw." More

Putting Vanity on Hold
from The New York Times
With hindsight, the first decade of this century may come to be viewed as the era of the mass medicalization of attractiveness. The advent of cosmetic Botox in 2002 posited the eradication of wrinkles as an affordable luxury amid a booming economy. On television, reality shows like “Extreme Makeover” and “Dr. 90210” normalized vanity medicine, making cosmetic operations seem cuddly and carefree. Meanwhile, lenders rushed in to offer specialized lines of credit for cosmetic procedures. And, somewhere along the way, the body became the new attire, a mutable status symbol subject to trends in proportion, silhouette, technology and disposable income. More

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Chicago TV Reporter Gets Botox on the Air
from TheBotoxSite.net
Chicago television reporter Dean Richards recently received a Botox procedure live on the air by Dr. Memar. Dr. Memar is an active Clinical istant Professor at Northwestern University, and medical director of Academic Dermatology & Skin Cancer Institute. More

Warning Over Animal Stem Cell Injections That Claim to Beat Wrinkles
from Telegraph
The therapy is illegal in the West, but according to the Thai newspaper The Nation patients are willing to pay between £2,000 to £20,000 in Bangkok to receive the treatment which is claimed to remove facial wrinkles. "Some patients might go into [anaphylactic] shock after receiving several doses of animal stem cells, especially those who have hyper sensitive reactions," warned Dr Tanom Bunaprasert, a medical professor at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. Dr Tanom also pointed out that there is no proven medical benefit to the procedure. "The feeling of a younger face is caused by the placebo effect, not stem cells that are injected into their faces," he said. More

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Tracking Hair Loss and Growth Mathematically
from Science Daily
CSIRO’s Biotech Imaging team, who specialize in developing software to analyze images automatically, worked with a UK personal care products company to find a way to objectively test how well their hair removal products work. More