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I was really looking forward to VH1's new show, The Price of Beauty, starring Jessica Simpson (who has herself admitted to having lip augmentation injections in the past, but now appears all-natural). After all, one would certainly expect a show so titled to include features on plastic surgery. So far (two episodes in), nada. The show did deal with one form of extreme body modification, when it featured the women of Thailand's Kayan tribe, who lengthen their necks over time by encasing them in multiple metal coils. The same episode talked about the dangerous things women in some Asian countries use to bleach their skin, and the most recent episode warned of the tragedy and danger of anorexia.

Though there have been no plastic surgery stories (yet), the show did hit a few universal chords, and I'm starting to believe the only way in which Jessica Simpson is “dumb” is like the proverbial fox.

For those of you willing to pay a price for beauty, there are ways to do it that are quicker, more convenient, and safer than the more extreme methods mentioned above. For instance, if you long for a more graceful and refined neck but don't want to go the metal coil route, how about  neck lift surgery? If brighter, more even-toned skin is your wish, skip dangerous and untested skin bleaching creams and try a gentle and non-ablative light-based treatment like IPL. And for goodness' sake, don't forget the SPF.

Finally, if you are living a healthy lifestyle but still have a few bulges that won't budge, please don't go to unhealthy extremes by not eating at all. As long as you are in relatively good health and near your ideal weight, you might be able to get the results you seek with liposuction or a tummy tuck.

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Feb. 16. 2010 — New guidelines for predicting women's heart disease risk,
updated in 2007 by the American Heart Association (AHA), work well, according
to researchers who put the new strategy to the test.

The guidelines recommend a simplified approach to assessing a woman's heart
disease risk, categorizing it as high risk, at-risk, or optimal risk.

The researchers evaluated how well the guidelines worked by testing them
with participants in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which enrolled more
than 160,000 women, ages 50 to 79. Next, they compared it to a commonly used
approach for predicting cardiovascular disease risk from the long-running
Framingham Heart Study.

''The advantage to the 2007 AHA guideline is that it's simple,” says study
researcher Judith Hsia, MD,  director of clinical research at AstraZeneca,
who conducted the study while a professor of medicine at George Washington
University in Washington, D.C.

“One drawback is, it's only for women,” she says, although ''there is no
reason it shouldn't work for men.”

Hsia and colleagues categorized the women from the WHI study as high risk,
at-risk, or optimal or low risk, depending on risk factors. (The WHI study
evaluated the effect of hormone therapy, diet, calcium, and vitamin D on heart
disease and cancers.) Here are the characteristics of each category:

High-risk women have known cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or end-stage
or chronic kidney disease.
At-risk women have more than one major risk factor for heart disease (such
as cigarette smoking, poor diet, inactivity, obesity, family history of early
heart disease, high blood pressure or cholesterol, evidence of ''subclinical''
vascular disease, metabolic syndrome, or poor treadmill test results).

Optimal or low-risk women have a healthy lifestyle and no risk factors. A
healthy lifestyle included exercising the equivalent of 30 minutes of brisk
walking six days a week and eating less than 7% of total calories from
saturated fat.

The Framingham Heart Risk Method

Hsia's team compared the new AHA approach to one commonly used approach from
the Framingham Heart Study, a long-running study of heart disease launched in
1948, that uses seven characteristics to compute the predicted risk of heart
problems over the next 10 years:

Age
Gender
Total cholesterol
HDL “good” cholesterol
Systolic blood pressure (upper number)
Need for blood pressure medication
Cigarette smoking

For instance, a woman who is 50 with healthy cholesterol levels (175 total
and 60 HDL), doesn't smoke, is on blood pressure medication, and keeps systolic
pressure at 120 would have a 10-year risk of 1% for heart attack or coronary
death.

Those categorized as high-risk using this method have a 10-year risk of more
than 20% and a history of heart disease or diabetes.

Testing the AHA Guidelines

Hsia and her colleagues found that 11% of the WHI participants were high
risk, 72% were at risk, and 4% at optimal or low risk using the AHA
guidelines.

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Are you sick of your look? Every year, we constantly try to create a new look to match the trends of beauty and fashion, chasing a seemingly impossible dream. Some people will spend thousands and thousands of dollars a year on new clothes and make-up to give them the look they've always dreamed of.

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Normally scabies is treated with Permethrin, a cream, by applying it from the neck down before going to bed then washing it off in the morning.  If you've been wondering how nice it would be if there was a less messy treatment option that worked just as well, you can stop wondering.  And the answer is yes.

Ivermectin is a pill that's used to treat certain types of intestinal worms in humans.  We've long known that ivermectin is a treatment option for scabies, especially scabies that's resistant to permethrin.  In a recent review of the treatment of scabies in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors cite a study that shows two doses of ivermectin 2 weeks apart works better than permethrin.

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“Beauty beverages” have flooded the market in recent years, promising to
transform humble water into a powerful anti-aging, skin perfecting potion.

According to market research firm Mintel, nearly 300 new food and drink
products with “functional beauty benefits” launched in 2008, about double the
number in 2007. Products like Borba, Glowelle, Crystal Light Skin Essentials,
BeautyScoop, and Noah's Naturals Anti-Aging Beauty Elixir all claim to improve
appearance and fight the signs of time on your skin.

Beauty is in the Eye of the Drink Holder

“Drinks with beauty benefits usually contain vitamins, amino acids, or
botanicals that possess antioxidant activities,” says Francesca Fusco, MD,
assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in
New York City. “A person should usually get enough of these nutrients through
diet, but drinking them is a reasonable way to supplement.”

Without any official definition or regulation about the use of the term, the
field of beauty drinks is wide open for interpretation, Fusco says. New York
nutritionist Keri Glassman, MS, RD, CDN, author of A Nutritious Life and
the O2 Diet, agrees. “Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, a
beauty drink is in the perspective of the consumer,” Glassman tells
WebMD. ”I think a beauty drink is anything that hydrates you, and thus
your skin.”

Can Sipping Save Your Skin?

When it comes to beauty drinks' effectiveness, experts say the glass is half
empty and half full. The dermatologists and nutritionists WebMD spoke to agree
that there are nutrients that can improve skin health, but the jury is out on
how effective a beauty beverage can be at shuttling this nutrition straight to
your skin.

Feeding your skin from within does have sound scientific reasoning. “The
dermis and subdermal fat make up over 80% of the skin, and that's where
the blood flow is,” says Los Angeles dermatologist Howard Murad, MD, founder of
Murad Skincare and associate clinical professor of dermatology at UCLA. “So
skin is more what you eat than what you put on.”

But Scott-Vincent Borba, founder and CEO of skin product company Borba, says
that “a lack of vitamins and dehydration can cause skin problems.” He says that
“a drinkable supplement can be an effective way to treat skin because it can
contain vitamins that are more bio-available and easier for the body to
absorb.”

Supplements in a powder or liquid may be absorbed more efficiently than
those in food or pills, Fusco tells WebMD. “But a person could probably get the
same ingredients at a significantly lower price with an over-the-counter bottle
of supplements,” Fusco says.

With regard to price, Borba can cost $4 to $6 a day (that's up to $180 a
month); a 30-day supply of Glowelle powder is $89; BeautyScoop runs $95 for a
21-day kit, and Crystal Light and Noah's Naturals cost about $1 a day.

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Researchers at The University of Manchester compared the drugs etanercept and ustekinumab — relatively new biological therapies that have proved effective in the management of moderate to severe psoriasis.

Little research has been done to test the benefit-risk profiles of these new biological agents or compare their relative effectiveness. The Manchester-led international study tested the two drugs on 903 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis over a 12-week period.

The team, headed by world-renowned dermatologist and psoriasis expert Professor Chris Griffiths, found that there was at least a 75% improvement in the severity of psoriasis symptoms in 56.8% of patients who received twice-weekly 50mg sub-cutaneous injections of etanercept after 12 weeks.

Ustekinumab was given to patients in two doses — 45mg and 90mg — and involved just two sub-cutaneous injections over the 12-week period. A 75% improvement in symptoms was observed in 67.5% of patients taking the 45mg dose and 73.8% receiving the 90mg dose.

“Our findings show that the efficacy of ustekinumab at either dosage was superior to that of high-dose etanercept using the 75% improvement measure over a 12-week period,” said Professor Griffiths, who is based at Salford Royal Hospital, Greater Manchester.

“Similarly, a higher proportion of patients using ustekinumab were reported to have no or minimal disease symptoms after 12 weeks than those given etanercept — 70.6% at 90mg ustekinumab compared to 49.0% receiving etanercept.”

About one in 50 people are afflicted by psoriasis. The condition is currently incurable and causes significant impairment in the sufferer's quality of life. In severe cases more than 20% of the skin's surface area can be affected. Therapeutic agents used for the management of the condition commonly target the underlying inflammation.

Immunosupressive agents, such as methotrexate and cyclosporin, have proved effective in treating psoriasis but new biological agents that block selective stages of the body's inflammatory process now provide alternative therapies. Etanercept and ustekinumab are two such agents.

Etanercept, marketed as Enbrel by Amgen / Wyeth, works by blocking the actions of a chemical signal called TNF-∝ that is involved in the body's immune response. Ustekinumab, a drug marketed as Stelara by Centocor Research and Development, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, targets two chemical signals involved in the immune system's response, called cytokines.

The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also charted the number and type of adverse reactions for both drugs.

Professor Griffiths said: “The safety of ustekinumab and etanercept, including the rates and types of adverse events and laboratory abnormalities, appeared to be generally similar with short-term treatment.

“There were, however, more injection-site reactions with etanercept but this may be accounted for by the fact patients received more injections of this drug than ustekinumab.”

He added: “The results of this study could have implications for determining the optimal approach to the treatment of psoriasis and, in particular, the need for therapeutic strategies targeting the body's immune system to provide the greatest benefit and safety.”

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When the fat deposit has been eliminated, the standard procedure is to leave the incision open in order to allow excess fluid and blood to drain from the wound site, and to manage edema. To assist with the liposuction recovery process the area of the wound is covered with absorption pads that capture the drained fluid; these pads are held in place by way of a compression garment.

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This procedure actually involves a gold thread face lift. This face lift is incredible and innovative at the same time. The doctors use a needle and a thread to sow a finely 24 karat mesh framework under the surface of the skin where it remains.

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