Our patients’ stories: overcoming breast asymmetry
High school can be hard enough on a girl’s self esteem. But for Kate*, typical rites of passage — like shopping for a prom dress — were impossible.
After trying on dress after dress that didn’t fit, Kate ultimately settled on something in black, with draped fabric to strategically cover her chest. Alterations made the gown wearable, but Kate still worried about whether her date would notice something that had begun to seem increasingly unusual to her about her body.
Kate suffered from severely asymmetrical, or lopsided, breasts. As she moved through puberty, her right breast grew beyond a D cup size, while ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - May 14, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Our patients’ stories Source Type: news
Plastic Surgery Can Change The Way People Perceive Your Personality
There's no doubt that plastic surgery can make you look younger, but can it also make people like you more?
A study published last week in the journal JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery found that women who underwent facial rejuvenation surgery were perceived to be not only more attractive but also more likeable than they were before the surgery.
The findings illustrate a phenomenon known as "facial profiling," a sort of cognitive shortcut we use to collect information about other people based on available visual cues, namely, their facial expressions.
"We engage in facial profiling as part of an evolutionary mechanism to ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - April 13, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Can a facelift make you more likeable?
Conclusion
This study suggests that people's perceptions of women's femininity, attractiveness and certain personality traits can improve after they receive facial surgery that aims to make them look younger.
However, there are a number of points to bear in mind:
The study was relatively small, assessing only 30 women (average age not reported) and only up to 50 people rating each set of photos. The women were also all white and operated on by the same two surgeons. The results may not be applicable to all people who have these kinds of surgeries or to all people viewing the results.
It was not clear how many wom...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Mental health Medical practice Source Type: news
Murphy keeps smiling after losing an eye to cancer
Strangers often tell Christine and Bryan that their daughter Murphy has such big, beautiful eyes. What they don’t know is that one of her eyes is not real. “We just want to say, ‘You have no idea!’, but we just smile and say, ‘thank you!’”
Murphy before surgery
When Murphy was five months old, Christine noticed that her daughter’s right pupil looked a bit iridescent. As a neurological nurse, she knew what to do to test a patient’s eyesight: she covered her daughter’s right eye to no effect. But when she covered the left eye, “Murphy lost her mind.”
Christine called her local pediatrician and was see...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - April 7, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Jenny Fernandez Tags: Cancer Our patients’ stories Ankoor Shah Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center MRI retinoblastoma Source Type: news
South Africa: True Life - Flipping the Switch, Hearing Again
[Health-e] Hearing her mother's voice for the first time in five years brought tears to her eyes, writes tuberculosis (TB) activist Phumeza Tisile just weeks after cochlear implants restored the hearing multidrug-resistant TB treatment took from her. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 2, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Bionic eye: Second Sight announces first commercial implants in France
Second Sight Medical said the first commercial implants of its “bionic eye” prosthetic retina neurostimulation device have taken place in France.
Second Sight Medical (NSDQ:EYES)
has reached a milestone in France: the first commercial implants of its “bionic eye” prosthetic retina neurostimulation device.
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Source: Mass Device - February 25, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Mark Hollmer Source Type: news
Revolutionary lens restores complete vision to ageing eyes
New implant improves vision for older people struggling with cataracts, astigmatism, or long and short-sightedness. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - December 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: lenses short sighted. vision. restore long sighted catarcts Source Type: news
Ocular Melanoma: Are You Aware of This Eye Cancer?
You have cancer. Three words no one ever wants to hear, yet this was what I was being told on a Monday morning in early July. I had traveled with my mom to Philadelphia to see an ocular oncologist, one of the best in the country, to determine if the tumor in my eye was a mole or ocular melanoma. Three months before this day, I never even knew ocular melanoma existed. I was aware of skin cancer, but never knew that people could get cancer in their eyes. The fact is that not many people do. Ocular melanoma is a very rare cancer, with only about six in 1 million people diagnosed per year.
With my two children before my ocul...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 11, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New eye implant could replace glasses
READING glasses may become a thing of the past as a new implant revolutionises treatment for ageing eyes. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - August 25, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Spending more time in the dark could boost hearing in old age | Dana Smith
Hope for non-invasive treatment for age-related deafness as scientists find neurons can compensate for disability at any ageIn the Marvel Comic Daredevil our eponymous hero is the victim of a radioactive spill, leaving him blind but also with an extraordinary heightening of his other senses, particularly hearing.For Julie, her superhuman hearing isn't the result of radioactivity, but is instead due to the reorganisation of neurons in her brain, enhancing her sense of hearing after the loss of her sight at the age of 16.The cells in our brain are plastic, not static, meaning they can adapt and grow according to our experien...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Dana Smith Tags: theguardian.com United States Blogposts World news Health Deafness and hearing impairment Medical research & wellbeing Neuroscience Disability Life and style Source Type: news
The BRAILLE contact lens: Implant that stimulates the eye is 600 times more sensitive than fingerprints
The lens beams signals from a camera onto the wearer's eyes and the sensations can be translated into a description of what is being seen. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 6, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
I'm a feminist and I've had cosmetic surgery. Why is that a problem? | Angela Neustatter
We should talk openly about cosmetic procedures and be supportive of women and men with low body confidenceThe memory of actor Julie Christie being accused, in print, of "betraying us all" when she admitted to having had a face lift to try to stay working in the mercilessly youth-adoring Hollywood culture, came sharply into focus as I read that cosmetic surgery procedures have risen by 17% on average since 2012.I had an eye job in my 40s when my eyes seemed to be disappearing into a reptilian layer of skin folds. This made me miserable because we communicate so much with our eyes, and journalists, more than most. I wrote a...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Angela Neustatter Tags: Comment Plastic surgery theguardian.com Biology Feminism World news Health & wellbeing Women Life and style Ageing Science Comment is free Source Type: news
How silicone implants in my eyes cured a lifetime of short sight
OUR writer is seeing the world in a whole new way after undergoing a radical procedure to correct severe shortsightedness (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 21, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'I had surgery in Panama to change my eye colour - but ended up blind'
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Shenise Farrell spent £8,000 on a procedure to implant coloured discs into each of her eyes in a bid to change their colour. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 9, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
