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    Plastic Surgery

    Plastic surgery may ease migraine pain

    August 03, 2009
    Plastic surgeons say that a cosmetic surgery similar to a forehead lift may lessen migraine symptoms. In a recent clinical trial involving 75 patients, 83 percent of the patients who underwent the surgery had migraine symptoms that were reduced by 50 percent. After one year, more than half of the surgery group reported that they still had fewer symptoms. Researchers say the surgery works by incapacitating muscles that trigger nerve branches in the head.
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    A Message from your T.V.: Go Plastic, or Go Home
    By Sue Chung , Health Expert

    ............interesting studies that may highlight society's growing plastic surgery consumption... Read more »

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    A Message from your T.V.: Go Plastic, or Go Home
    By Sue Chung , Health Expert

    ............interesting studies that may highlight society's growing plastic surgery consumption... Read more »

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    Study Uncovers Link Between Plastic Surgery and Mental Illness
    By Kimberly Tyler , Health Expert

    ......screening: "It would not be warranted to have every plastic surgery patient undergo... Read more »

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    Should I Get a Mommy Makeover?
    By Sue Chung , Health Expert

    ...generations who lived without the benefit (or curse) of plastic surgery. And while mommy... Read more »

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    Which Fillers Are The Most Safe and Effective?
    By Dr. Hema Sundaram , Health Expert

    ...one of the "core four" specialties of dermatology, plastic surgery, facial plastic surgery and... Read more »

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    Health Guide

    Plastic Surgery for Migraines?
    ...Krusz. Teri Robert. August 3, 2009. 4 Montgomery, Allie. "Could Migraine Pain be Permanently Erased by Plastic Surgery?" HealthNews.com. August 3, 2009. 5 Staff Reporter. "Cosmetic surgery may... Read more »
    Liposuction Lessons
    ...are terribly resistant to metabolism. You can't burn them off," says Richard D'Amico, M.D., chief of plastic surgery at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, New Jersey, and assistant clinical... Read more »
    The Obsession with Breasts and Body Image
    ...enlargements are performed each year in the US. This surgery is second only to liposuction as the most common plastic surgery in America. According to Dr. Michael Kulick, “Breast augmentation is... Read more »
    Plastic Surgery- Facelifts
    Plastic SurgeryIn 2005, there were over 2.1 million cosmetic surgeries, up 1% from the year before. Most of these surgeries were liposuction and breast surgeries. However, over 200,000 each of eyelid... Read more »
    Torticollis
    ...in infants. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine, Section on Plastic Surgery and Section on Neurological Surgery. Pediatrics. 2003; 112(1 Pt 1): 199-202. Read more »

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    Hip Replacement Surgery -- Hip Surgery due to arthritis

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