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...ORLEANS: Sallie Ann Glassman, the city's best-known voodoo high priestess, says she cured herself of breast cancer last month. She promises to heal you of your discomforts?spiritual, physical, psychological and social?starting at $100 a treatment...
This wouldn't be the first time that the medical profession was caught inventing a disease to go with the cure in hand. In the 1990s plastic surgeons discovered "micromastia," a syndrome characterized solely by small breasts and conveniently curable with silicone implants. A century and some years ago, doctors detected an epidemic of "hysteria" among affluent women, manifested by hundreds of unrelated symptoms and requiring constant medical attention. Or we may reflect on the case of hormone-replacement therapy, which doctors promoted as a cure for the "disease" of menopause, only to discover, after millions of women had been...
...TIME, this one may be the most controversial: Is there really a need for an orgasm-promoting drug for women? The drug companies like to cite a study suggesting that 43% of American women suffer from FSD, which would make the disorder more than 10 times as prevalent as breast cancer or AIDS, though surely a bit more bearable. But critics point out that in the study, women were judged to have FSD for answering yes to any one of seven questions, such as whether they had experienced difficulty with lubrication or sometimes lacked desire. Perhaps the more amazing conclusion...
...Silicone breast implants sometimes break and leak, requiring further surgery and triggering other complications, so in 1992 the FDA banned their routine use. Last October an FDA advisory panel voted to allow more durable implants back on the market. Now the agency, which almost always follows its panels' advice, has delayed approval to implant maker Inamed until it gets more data about any long-term health risks. Silicone implants may yet make a comeback, but don't hold your breath...
...touch with yours. Her clients range from the terminally ill to folks just searching for answers. Sessions in person or over the phone start from $60 New Orleans: Sallie Ann Glassman, the city's best-known voodoo high priestess, says she cured herself of breast cancer last month. She promises to heal you of your discomforts - spiritual, physical, psychological and social - starting at $100 a treatment Hong Kong: A favorite of local celebrities and socialites, ponytailed Peter So Man-fung is a feng shui master who has a propensity to appear in local movies and at hip nightclubs...