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Actually, she hails from just about as far south as you can go: the southeastern edge of Africa. Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira grew up in the capital of Mozambique, a city now called Maputo but then known as Lourenco Marques. The daughter of a Portuguese doctor, she was part of a pampered colonial class, playing tennis on the grass lawns of private clubs and spending her days sipping tea and coffee with her friends. One of the country's best-known painters, Malangatana Valente, recalls serving "Terezinha" when he worked as a waiter in a coffee shop...
...Kind of Spa Want a face peel? A Botox shot? Check out your local spa. A certified doctor may now be on staff...
...last word of warning: don't try getting around your doctor by buying testosterone on the Internet. A lot of products sold on the Net claim to contain testosterone-like substances, but for the real deal, you need a prescription...
When Pat Roitman turned 40, she began to notice red splotches and parched skin on her face. So she started taking quarterly trips from Detroit to New York City for medi-spa services. The airline employee, now 43, says microdermabrasion salt peels administered under a doctor's supervision have rid her face of blemishes and moisturized her dry skin. "I get a smoother surface on my face after a salt peel. I'm going after that porcelain-beautiful skin, and I want to do everything I can to have it," says Roitman...
Medi-spas are the fastest-growing segment of the spa industry, with estimated annual revenues of $450 million for doctor-run medi-spas and an annual growth rate of 11% to 14%, says Eric Light, president of the International Medical Spa Association, based in Union City, N.J. Although there are some 9,000 spas in the U.S., only about 500 are medical spas, which differ from day spas in that they have a doctor on staff. That allows medi-spas to perform more complicated and costly procedures. For plastic surgeons and dermatologists, medi-spas are an opportunity to go retail...