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...private practice in Davis, Calif., is preparing to submit to peer-reviewed medical journals a study on female genital cosmetic surgery. He says the study - the first to include more than one surgical center, with more than 250 patients in seven states and Canada - will show that in follow-ups ranging from six months to 3 1/2 years after surgery, women are overwhelmingly happy with the results. "Virtually always, it has improved their sexual relationship," he says. (See the best inventions...
...when the trial was conducted, decided to address the uncertainties by designing a randomized, controlled, double-blinded trial - the most rigorous study of gingko biloba to date. The end result is scientific confidence that the findings are both reliable and reproducible: At the end of six years of follow up, 523 of the more than 3,000 healthy subjects had developed dementia - 277 of those patients had taken gingko, and 246 had received the placebo. Of these cases, 92% were likely in the first phase of Alzheimer's, researchers say. "These results show that gingko doesn't slow down entry...
...could be conducted on such a large and elderly population for such a long period of time. In fact, DeKosky had recruited double the number of people who participated in the study - the volunteers, plus a study partner for each volunteer who ensured that participants would be available for follow up testing. "There have not been many prevention trials in Alzheimer's," says Thies. "This study says that you can run a study in this population and carry it out to its end. That's important as we look to the future to test drugs that could change the course...
...nearly two decades ago in the case of the second highest ranking monk in the Tibetan hierarchy, the Panchen Lama. "He's already indicated that he's ready to consider a number of non-traditional possibilities such as appointing a child successor now or having a lay person follow him around, or even contemplating having a woman successor," says Barnett. "This seems to be turning into the forum where they can discuss issues like that...
...MISS: Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz as they present a rare dining experience, serving an elaborate 20-course dinner (with the elaborate price of $1,500) at Per Se in New York City on Nov. 11 (212-823-9450). Similar suppers will follow at Achatz's Alinea and Keller's French Laundry...