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Another approach gaining popularity is collagen or fat injections, administered under local anesthesia by a urologist, to plump up tissues around the urethra. The body tends to absorb collagen, so the shots must be repeated every year...
...damp, grey mass with sticky orange coating that I get in place of a cheeseburger bears no resemblance to the plump, juicy meal you get when you say the same word: ‘cheeseburger’ at Bartley’s,” one student wrote...
...square meters, the market is so colorful and bustling that it will become your ideal of what a Mediterranean seaside marketplace should be. In the shadow of churches and historic architecture, stalls groan under the weight of mounds of olives, vast wheels of cheese, baskets of fresh herbs, plump vine tomatoes and eggplants the size of soccer balls. Even if you buy?and consume?nothing, you'll find the atmosphere alone is totally fulfilling. The market is open until 2 p.m., except Sundays when it is closed...
McDonald's, the world's largest fast-food chain, said that by the end of 2004 it would stop using meat from animals that had been excessively treated with antibiotics. The decision may help curtail the practice of dosing healthy animals with antibiotics to plump them up for slaughter. Doctors hope this will reduce the opportunity for disease-causing bacteria, present in meat, to become resistant to drugs...
...Botox. Hyaluronan is the new rejuvenator. Found in the umbilical cord, some bacteria and the red combs of roosters, hyaluronan reduces inflammation in arthritic knees and prevents scar tissue after surgery. It's also what makes up the gel Restylane, a Medicis product recently approved by the FDA to plump wrinkles around the nose and mouth. (Botox is used to erase crow's-feet, furrowed brows and other frown lines.) Europeans and Canadians have been using Restylane for years. Another wrinkle buster, Hylaform, manufactured by Genzyme, is awaiting FDA approval...