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...sound, but there were plenty of appalling exceptions. In the 1950s Army doctors gave LSD to soldiers without telling them what it was. In 1963 researchers injected prisoners and terminally ill patients with live cancer cells to test their immune responses; they were told only that it was a "skin test." In the 1950s mentally retarded children at Willowbrook, a state institution in New York, were deliberately infected with hepatitis so that scientists could work on an experimental vaccine. And in perhaps the most infamous case on record, doctors at Georgia's Tuskegee Institute, starting in the 1930s, deliberately withheld...
...idea is to heat up the underlying dermis, stimulating fibroblast cells to produce collagen, which pushes out fine wrinkles and scars. "This temperature sensor is monitoring things," says Weiss, 49, as he points to a fail-safe device on the laser. "If the temperature rises too high in the skin, it won't let you do another pulse...
Doctors have been going after wrinkles for years with face-lifts and now laser and chemical peels, which burn away the epidermis and 50 to 100 microns of dermis, resulting in fresh skin growth. What's new is the emergence of "nonablative" lasers and light sources, including Cool Touch, manufactured by ICN Pharmaceuticals of Costa Mesa, Calif., and IPL (Intense Pulsed Light), made by Lumenis of Santa Clara, Calif. Both technologies, when used by a skilled physician, avoid even temporary damage to the epidermis and leave few if any telltale signs. For that reason--and because quick sessions...
...August 6, Crown will publish "American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America," by Leon Wynter. PW is intrigued. "Making an indisputable if sometimes obvious case for non-white influence on American culture, Wynter, an NPR commentator and former WSJ columnist, here joins a chorus chronicling the dissolution of America's once-clear racial delineations into a 'transracial culture'...The downside of 'transracialism' is 'the steady erosion of black identity as the organizing principle for community development,' but Wynter concludes that 'the future is not about black people leading black people [but] about black people leading...
...least it wasn’t herpes. Who even really knows what syphilis is?” Good point. (Word of the Day—Syphilis: “A chronic infectious disease caused by a spirochete progressing through three stages characterized respectively by local formation of chancres, ulcerous skin eruptions, and systemic infection leading to general paresis,” according to Dictionary.com...