Plastic surgery seems to make people look about 8.9 years younger than their actual age, researchers from the University of Toronto and NorthShore University Health System reported in Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. Jeremy P. Warner, M.D., and team set out to determine how much younger esthetic facial surgical procedures made people look, in order to measure surgical success...
More people die per year from hepatitis C than HIV each year in the USA, and the number of people dying from hepatitis C or B occurs disproportionately in middle-aged individuals, researchers from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) reported in Annals of Internal Medicine...
A study in the February issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, reveals that deep brain stimulation (DBS), commonly used to treat individuals with movement disorders or chronic pain, also affects respiratory function. Lead researcher of the study was Dr. Jonathan A. Hyam of University of Oxford, United Kingdom...