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Though it may seem like a stretch, opponents of the tax are making a populist cry. "This tax is not just a luxury tax," says Dr. Joanna Partridge, a plastic surgeon in North Brunswick, N.J. "This is a tax on the middle class, which is directly against what President Obama campaigned on." About 60% of those planning to have cosmetic medical procedures have an annual household income of $30,000 to $90,000, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS...
...basic facts about human fat are at odds with the story. Fat does not last very long outside the body and would be of little use once stored in dirty, returnable bottles of Inca Kola, Peru's electric yellow, bubble gum-flavored soda. Says Dr. Roni Luna, a plastic surgeon in Lima: "Human fat has no value. It can be removed from one part of a person's body and injected into another part of the same person, but that's it. Anyone who has taken a rudimentary class in human biology can tell you that decomposition would happen within...
...have one. I just saw that there was a store near me. It didn't actually ever open up, so maybe the FDA or the food and game commission got to them. Apparently you plunge your feet into water and certain kinds of fish - I think they were called surgeon fish, which sounds disgusting enough - come and eat your disgusting calluses off. Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now. I think they would defeat any fish...
...filmmakers. I read McCarthy's lean, brutalizing novel in one unhappy gulp 15 months ago and only recently began to consider myself healed. How do you lure people to a movie made from a book that itself probably should have borne a mental-health warning from the surgeon general? Do you target the innocents or the masochists...
...panel stands by its new recommendations, relying on the data, which simply do not support the benefit of routine screening when balanced with risks, among younger women. The new recommendations are also backed by some prominent physicians, including the cancer surgeon Dr. Susan Love, who agree there's insufficient data to show that screening under 50 works. The debate, says Dr. Len Lichtenfeld of ACS, is not likely to end soon. "This is the beginning of a discussion that will likely continue vigorously over the next several months, if not years," he predicts...