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Botox: short for botulinum toxin. The name won't make you smile, but the injection can keep you from frowning. A decade ago, the toxin that causes botulism (a form of food poisoning) was a treatment only for spasmodic eye muscles. Then doctors saw that it also smoothed skin. Now...
Glazer said the committee will consider the recommendations in that report, which mainly focus on cosmetic changes to the Square, while also addressing wider safety issues.
Dissent: Cosmetic Changes Aren't Enough
Vajpayee doesn't much believe it, though. He suspects the crackdown Musharraf has begun on the terrorists will prove merely cosmetic. So he too has made a sharp shift, throwing off his almost avuncular detachment to launch a scary game of military brinkmanship. Pride and domestic politics lie behind that...
Dr. Xia Hetong, a surgeon at Beijing's No. 402 Hospital, is a pioneer of limb-extension surgery for patients disfigured by birth defects or injury. Since he started offering cosmetic leg-lengthening a few years ago, he has performed more than 600 operations. His patients have grown by an...