Healthy Nation

Despite the availability of many cosmetic surgeries and procedures to treat the aging face, there is still little understanding of how the face grows older. A special presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), being held April 11-16, 2013, in New York, NY, will review current results from a study that is documenting the facial aging of plastic surgeons in real-time. “Longitudinal Study of Facial Aging,”moderated by James M. Stuzin, MD, will feature Val S. Lambros, MD, who is conducting the study.

“Typically, facial aging has been understood by what we do to improve the look of the face. For example, when all we were doing was pulling on the face using the facelift, it was thought that the face largely aged by descent. Now t

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Eating at the table alongside parents can discourage food fads. Photo / Getty Images

Children who eat the same meals as their parents are far more likely to have healthy diets than those who do not, according to research.

Eating the same food had a greater impact on a young child’s health than any other factor, including social background and snacking between meals.

Dr Valeria Skafida, at the Centre for Population Health Sciences at Edinburgh University, also found that firstborn children had healthier diets than second or third born.

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BEIJING, April 22 (UPI) – The number of H7N9 bird flu patients in China has risen to 102, with 20 dead from the virus, the World Health Organization said.

China officially confirmed the occurrence of humans infected with H7N9 late last month.

Former boxer turned Broadway star Mike Tyson – who owes millions in back taxes – said Monday that he hopes that Obamacare will help him save money.

“I look forward to paying my taxes… I know that they say that’s legal extortion, but I’m living in this country and if I have to pay taxes — that’s the money I paid for my life on earth. My wife, my family — I got one of the biggest liberal families in the world, but I had more money when Bush and Reagan was president,” Tyson said laughing on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”

A three-year clinical trial involving over 5,000 women in East and Southern Africa has found that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – whether a vaginal gel or an oral tablet – is not effective at preventing HIV infection in young, unmarried women.

The Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic (VOICE) study – involving HIV-negative women in South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe – aimed to test the safety, effectiveness and acceptability of three HIV-prevention methods: daily use of a vaginal gel containing the antiretroviral (ARV) drug tenofovir; daily use of oral tablets containing tenofovir, and daily use of oral Truvada, a combination of tenofovir and another ARV, emtricitabine. In 2011, VOICE stopped testing oral tenofovir and tenofovir gel after reviews found that it was not effective, leaving only the Truvada arm of the trial to continue. Read full post…

Social media is leading consumers to have a more self-critical eye, according to a new survey by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS). The annual poll of 752 of the organizations board-certified facial plastic surgeons found that there was a 31% increase in requests for surgery as a result of social media photo sharing.

The study shows that a growing number of procedures are cosmetic versus reconstructive in nature, accounting for 73% of all procedures in 2012, up from 62% in 2011. Of the procedures requested as a result of social media influence, rhinoplasty, BOTOX, and facelifts topped the list.

While social media continues to play an increasingly large role in how consumers view themselves, its influence as a trusted informational resource for plastic surgery is diminishing.

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