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Recent Plastic Surgery News

As we have written here before, plastic surgery is coming up more and more in the news and as the prices for these procedures decrease and it becomes more easily accessible. Here are some of the most recent headliners: So far this past year we’ve seen a couple individuals surface on media outlets requesting procedures …

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The Importance of Water

Water covers 71% of the earth, but 96.5% of this water is found in the seas and the ocean. Only a small fraction of the Earth’s water is freshwater and 98.8% of that is either in ice or ground water. That leaves an incredibly small amount of water left for humans and animals. For humans, …

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Google Glass will be used by Doctors

Think the field of medicine is quickly advancing? Think again. It’s advancing much faster than you might be able to imagine. Pretty soon your doctor may be wearing Google glass the next time you visit him/her. Google glass is a wearable computer with an optical head mounted display. It displays information like a smart phone …

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Low Cost Filtered Drinking Water

Many Americans may take clean drinking water for granted. Yet 768 million people do not have access to safe and clean drinking water. As many as 1,400 children die each day due to unclean drinking water. Currently there are more people who have mobile phones than a toilet. The average American taking a five minute …

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Popular Plastic Surgeries in 2013

Recently, the numbers for some of the most popular surgeries for 2013 have been released by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Overall in the U.S., a whopping 15.1 million cosmetic procedures were performed last year. This represents a 3% increase from 2012. The top 5 cosmetic surgical procedures in 2013 were: Breast Augmentation (290,000) …

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A little bit about diets

You hear a friend or coworker is dieting. What does that even mean? There are so many diets and do they even work? The definition of a diet according to google is: “restrict oneself to small amounts or special kinds of food in order to lose weight”. More often than not, these diets are temporary …

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New Medical Device Can Seal Gunshot Wounds

RevMedX is developing a revolutionary new type of hemostatic dressing that can be used to seal gunshot wounds. These are used in controlling bleeding that cannot be normally controlled by tourniquet methods. The company has already received $5 million in funding from the American military in order to bring this concept into production. The development …

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Genital Surgeries: An Increasing Trend and Other Headliners

An increasingly popular trend among females involves permanently changing the look or feel of the genitalia. This has been spurred by the increased availability of pornography and other explicit images which show “better looking” genitalia. It has been reported that these procedures do carry various risks and do not show any improved sexual functioning or …

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Nutrition Labels Renvisioned and More

Before the 1960s no foods had any nutrition information labeled. Then by the 1990, the FDA required all packaged and prepared food to have nutrition labels. However they have largely remained unchanged since then. The FDA has made it a priority this year to revamp those labels and eating healthier may soon be much easier. …

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