OBJECTIVE To explore, among middle-aged women, the relationship between having ever had cosmetic surgery and the frequency of use of other health services. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of cross-sectional survey data from the Women's Health Australia (WHA) study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A nationally representative sample of the "mid-aged" (45-50 years) cohort of women who participated in t...

Cosmetic lateral canthoplasty, in which the size of the eye is increased by extending the palpebral fissure and decreasing the degree of the eye slant, has become a prevalent procedure for East Asians. However, it is not uncommon for there to be complications or unfavorable results after the surgery. With this in mind, the authors have designed a surgical method to reduce complications in cosme...

procedure. Ninety female patients had free flap breast reconstruction at the University of California, Irvine from January of 2004 to December of 2008. The average reimbursement was 38.3 percent of billed charges. The mean and median reimbursement was $6597 and $4962, respectively. Of these 90 patients, seven returned to the group for a cosmetic procedure, for a total of nine procedures. One of...

As our knowledge of the functional and pharmacological architecture of the nervous system increases, we are getting better at treating cognitive and affective disorders. Along with the ability to modify cognitive and affective systems in disease, we are also learning how to modify these systems in health. “Cosmetic neurology,” the practice of intervening to improve cognition and affect in healt...

BACKGROUND Cosmetic breast implants may impair the ability to detect breast cancers. The aims of this study were to examine whether implants and implant characteristics are associated with more advanced breast tumors at diagnosis and poorer survival. METHODS Study population includes all invasive breast cancer cases diagnosed during follow-up of the large Canadian Breast Implant Cohort. A tot...

OBJECTIVE During the past decades, cosmetic surgery has become increasingly popular. People with certain psychopathology disorders, for example, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), are dissatisfied with their physical appearance, and a significant number try to receive cosmetic medical treatment for their complaints. It seems relatively easy for them to receive this type of surgery, despite the fac...

BACKGROUND Currently, cosmetic series (Chemotechnique Diagnostics, Sweden) is the most widely used cosmetic-related patch test in Korea. However, no studies have been conducted on how accurately it reflects the constituents of the cosmetics in Korea. OBJECTIVE We surveyed the constituents of various cosmetics and compare with the cosmetic series, to investigate whether it is accurate in deter...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the adhesion of Acanthamoeba trophozoites on cosmetic contact lenses (CLs) with and without CL care multipurpose solution (MPS) treatment. METHODS Acanthamoeba lugdunensis L3a trophozoites were inoculated onto disks trimmed from CLs: 1-day Acuvue moist, 1-day Acuvue define, Acuvue 2, and Acuvue 2 define. After 18-hour inoculation, the number of adherent...