Differentiating Yourself in a Competitive Marketplace
July 8, 2008
Look through your local newspaper and you will see many, if not several, ads promising a more beautiful body with liposuction, a more attractive face with Botox and wrinkle fillers, fuller breasts, less hair and it goes on and on. As if that’s not confusing enough, some are from core specialties in private practice but some are from “rejuvenation centers” run by vascular surgeons or medi-spas run by business people who have a designated medical director who might be a family practice physician or it could even be a salon/spa who has a traveling physician show up periodically to perform treatments and leave. Read more
Study shows value of food diary in losing weight
July 8, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters Life!) - Keeping a food diary — a detailed account of what you eat and drink and the calories it packs — is a powerful tool in helping people lose weight, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
The study involving 1,685 middle-aged men and women over six months found those who kept such a diary just about every day lost about twice as much weight as those who did not. Read more
The First Gyno Spa Opens In New York
July 8, 2008
Today the New York Times reports on a jaw-dropping addition to the medical spa trend.
Now comes the first medi spa in Manhattan wholly dedicated to strengthening and grooming a woman’s genital area. Phit — short for pelvic health integrated techniques — is to open this month on East 58th Street.
Dr. Lauri Romanzi, a gynecologist who performs pelvic reconstruction surgery, said she came up with the idea for the spa one day while walking by an outlet of BriteSmile, the tooth-whitening chain. She liked that the stores cater to people with healthy teeth. Read more
Thermage to buy Reliant Technologies for $95 million
July 7, 2008
July 7 (Reuters) - Aesthetic medical device maker Thermage Inc (THRM.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said it would buy privately held Reliant Technologies Inc, a provider of cosmetic laser skin treatment, for about $95 million in cash and stock, sending its shares up as much as 10 percent. Read more
New York Day Spa Offers Botox and Facial for the Pits
July 7, 2008
Shizuka New York, the day spa that introduced bird poop facials to Manhattan, offers the Underarm Overhaul that combines underarm botox for sweat reduction with an underarm “facial” and underarm waxing, just in time for summer heat waves. Botox cosmetic was approved by the FDA in 2004 for treating severe underarm sweat (hyperhidrosis) and has quickly become a celebrity beauty secret for preventing embarrassing armpit sweating and staining. Read more
Cosmetic procedure can reveal the youth within
July 7, 2008
Out, out, damned age spot.
Begone satanic sags, fleshy jowls and jiggly wattles.
If there’s one thing baby boomers hate to see when we look in the mirror it’s a face (or body) that does not match our inner image of ourselves. Read more
Botox Alternative Removes Wrinkles, Naturally
July 3, 2008
Let’s “face” it - eventually we will all get wrinkles. But did you know that absentminded frowning or furrowing of the face (while working or concentrating) WILL speed up the wrinkling process, compounding the ravages of age? The more persistent and habitual the frown, the more aggressively the wrinkles will take hold. Historically, the only way to reverse these particular effects of age and habit has been either surgery or expensive, repeated injections… until now. Hypnox is a 25-minute hypnotherapeutic audio CD developed as an alternative to Botox. Read more
American Health Journal - TV: Cookie diet
July 3, 2008
Eat cookies and lose weight! Irving Posalski, MD explains how you can lose weight by eating cookies. An interview clip from the American Health Journal PBS-TV. Read more
FDA Approves EVOLENCE, a New Generation Collagen-Based Facial Filler
July 2, 2008
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the approval of EVOLENCE® for the correction of moderate to deep facial wrinkles and folds, such as nasolabial folds. EVOLENCE® is a new advanced collagen-based structural dermal filler, and a first of its kind product. The introduction of EVOLENCE® marks the first dermal filler entry for the Aesthetics Group of OrthoNeutrogena. While new to the United States, EVOLENCE® has been available in other markets such as in Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, Israel, South Korea and Russia since 2004. Read more
The young face of Botox
July 2, 2008
Young women in their 20s turn to shots to prevent wrinkles from forming.
When Natalie Neal, 27, looks in the mirror she sees one faint line across her forehead. She knows no one notices but her, but “when I’m 40 and have a huge line across my forehead they’re going to notice.”
That’s why before her wedding last summer, Neal adopted a beauty routine from her 50-year-old mother – Botox. Read more
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