In Taiwan there have been reported complications in some LASIK Eye Surgery patients, which has left the medical profession accused of using an unsafe procedure to treat eye conditions. Moreover, one of the leading optical health professionals in Taiwan decided to stop using the therapeutic treatment, causing further controversy. However, a leading expert has rebuffed […]
An issue has arisen in Canada over the unlicensed administration of Botox by health spas. The issue involves health spas in the Vancouver area who are ignoring Health Canada regulations stating that Botox should only be prescribed and injected by a medically qualified physician. The issue came to light after a reporter from the Canadian […]
Staci Leons-Parnell who owns a hair dressing salon in the town of Anderson in Indiana, recently decided to start raising money to help local cancer patients. She told local reporters: “A lot of times, losing your hair is more devastating than chemotherapy. People who lose their hair don’t feel whole and it doesn’t fall out […]
A well known American company called Wallgreen is planning to sell male fertility testing kits. Female pregnancy testing kits have been around for many years, but an increasing number of men are finding they have low sperm counts, which results in infertility problems for the couples concerned. As such, according to the makers of the […]
The USA has for a couple of years now been going through a tremendous legal wrangle over President Obama’s health care reforms. Many opposed believe that the change will cost so much it will be self defeating. The aim of the reforms is to help those US families who are either unable to afford proper […]
While baldness in men is accepted as part and parcel of getting older, the same is not the case with women in the main. However, baldness does occur in women as a result of alopecia. It’s also something many women find hard to come to terms with. Yet, one lady from Cardiff has now decided […]
Some experts believe a new product could spell the end of Botox or at the very least become its main competitor. Called Xeomin, the product has made cosmetic surgeons rather excited, as its results compares very favourably with Botox and other botulism derived products and in some cases works better. One of the first to […]
A study published in a British medical journal, The Lancet, has suggested that deaths from malaria across the world are underestimated. While the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently suggested that 650,000 deaths occurred during 2010, other research believes this figure should be significantly higher – an estimated 1.2 million in fact. The research is based […]
The number of diets offered nowadays is innumerable and what’s more, many people often say they have tried all the diets under the sun but still haven’t lost weight. As such, this begs the question – is dieting worth it? The answer it seems is yes and no. In other words, dieting does work, but […]
It seems more and more men are swapping exercise at the gymnasium for cosmetic surgery in order to improve their looks. What’s more it seems that the tummy tuck is the most popular operation. Despite the economic situation or perhaps because of it, together with the cost of gym membership a total of 4,298 abdominoplasty […]