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...selling Fair & Lovely lightening soaps and creams and--new this season--Fair and Handsome, for men. And you see it in commercials, in which India's top two models, Katrina Kaif and Yana Gupta, are part English and part Czech, respectively. Lightness is big business. Fair and Handsome's maker, Mohan Goenka of Calcutta-based Emami, says the fairness-cosmetics market has grown two-thirds in the past five years, to an annual $250 million. India's 60,000 beauty salons do a roaring trade bleaching faces and blasting skin with tiny sand blowers...
...party with a governing majority, forcing contending groups to compromise once more and produce the kind of jigsaw Cabinet that has proved not to work so far. The new Prime Minister is likely to discover that he must act as al-Jaafari has: as a mediator and patchwork maker. Some analysts, attempting political clairvoyance, have said that the lack of a strong leader may then tempt one faction or another to stage a coup...
Here's the latest wrinkle in skin care: Elizabeth Arden, the cosmetics giant, and Allergan, the $2.2 billion maker of Botox, have teamed to bring you the first-ever cosmetic version of a pharmaceutical product. Until now, Prevage, Allergan's topical antiaging treatment, has been available for purchase only at a dermatologist's office or medical spa. By December, a creamier and less concentrated version of the wrinkle cream will be on sale at select U.S. department stores ($150 for 1.7 oz.). Overseas customers will be able to find it beginning in March. This cosmeceutical alliance is a harbinger...
...more serotonin to accumulate in the synapses. The result, hopefully, is that the patient begins to feel better within a few weeks. But how solid is the chemical-imbalance model of depression? That depends on whom you ask. The drug companies present it as fact. On its website, Pfizer, maker of the blockbuster SSRI sertraline (Zoloft), asserts that antidepressants "work by correcting the chemical imbalance in your brain." The Australian mental health lobby group beyondblue is slightly more circumspect in its literature, saying "severe depression appears to be associated with a reduction in the chemicals of the brain." Depression comes...
...many critics, though, the key problem with SSRIs is that they are too widely - and casually - prescribed. When the first antidepressant, imipramine (Tofranil), was developed just over 50 years ago, maker Ciba-Geigy balked at taking it to market for fear there weren't enough depressed people in the world to make it profitable. The wisdom of the time was that endogenous depression affected, at the most, about 1 in 1,000 people at some time in their lives. Things have changed. Groups such as beyondblue now promote the idea that about 1 in 5 people will become depressed during...