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Plastic Surgery Techniques For Reshaping the Round Face
Not infrequently I get requests from patients for the desire to transform a round face into a more shapely appearance. One cause of a round face is that the patient is overweight. A full neck, round cheeks, and a lot of subcutaneous fat throughout the face creates a generalized fullness that creates a fat and …
The Health 202: States pursue public health coverage even as Trump administration emphasizes private
THE PROGNOSIS Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) recently signed the country’s first “public option” plan. (Susan Walsh/AP) The Trump administration has promised states more flexibility in how they run their Obamacare marketplaces. But creating a state-backed “public option” plan may not be what Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma had in mind. Half …
Top 10 Reasons People Give for Having Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery is not just for the rich and famous, although it seems more and more if you are rich, and in the spotlight, you’ve “had work done.” The tabloids LOVE it when a celebrity gets work done. “OMG did you notice that Cameron Diaz has less smile lines around her eyes?“ But the practice …
Momentum Builds for Allowing NY Bar Applicants to Keep Mental Health History Secret
Henry M. Greenberg, president of the New York State Bar Association. Photo: David Handschuh/NYLJ The new president of the New York State Bar Association is announcing today that he’s launching a blue-ribbon committee to determine if the state should remove questions about mental health disorders from applications for the bar. The move mirrors efforts underway nationwide. In …
Top-10 Tips for Cosmetic Surgery Recovery
After more than thirty-five years as a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, I have identified the Top-10 Tips for Cosmetic Surgery Recovery. Patient preparation for surgery is essential to insure that the post-operative course of recovery for patients is easier and safer. I can not stress more strongly the importance of patience responsibility in regard to …
‘A tidal wave of problems’: texting on the mental health frontline | Society
The computer dashboard at Shout, a suicide prevention text service, flashes up with a new cry for help every minute or two. The really worrying ones are highlighted in yellow by software that attempts to detect if a texter is about to try to kill themselves. Words and phrases such as “overdose” or “I can’t …
California lawmakers agree to health benefits for immigrants
California will become the first state to pay for some adults living in the country illegally to have full health benefits as the solidly liberal bastion continues to resist the policies of Republican President Donald Trump’s administration. Democrats in the state Legislature reached an agreement Sunday afternoon as part of a broader plan to spend …
Breast Augmentation Plastic Surgery – What You Should Know
In 2016, Americans spent approximately 8 billion ($8,000,000,000) on comestic surgery procedures ranging from breast augmentations, liposuction, facelifts, buttock augmentations, facial implants to botox. Off all the procedures, breast augmentation, also known as Mammaplasty was the most popular and sought after procedure. What is a breast augmenation surgery procedure? Breast augmentation surgery is a procedure, …
After ShopRite win, Lexi Thompson gives advice on mental health, ‘Keep on pushing through it’
Give Lexi Thompson credit. She may have the strongest chin in women’s golf. She took more than her share of setbacks in windy conditions during a tough weekend at the ShopRite LPGA Classic but kept punching back. Thompson buried a clutch eagle putt at the 18th hole Sunday to overtake U.S. Women’s Open winner Jeongeun …
Plastic Surgery – All You Need to Know
Therapies for the plastic fixing of a busted nose are initially discussed in the Edwin Smith Papyrus a transcription of an Old Egyptian clinical message, some of the earliest well-known medical writing, dated to the Old Kingdom from 3000 to 2500 BC. Rebuilding surgical procedure methods were being brought out in India by 800 BC. …
