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At least 36 Xhosa boys in South Africa have died this year taking part in a manhood ritual that involves undergoing ritual circumcision under unsanitary conditions. Deaths among youths taking part in the ceremonies are, sadly, not uncommon . [UPI] More »
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Over at the Daily News, my buddy Leah, a comely 26-year-old who regularly gets carded at bars, went to Botox purveyors to see if they would tell her she needed a little "freshening up." The verdict? Many of them told her she was due for some face botulism: More »
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Americans are spending a reported $13.2 billion on cosmetic surgery (more than the GDP of Bolivia!), but should health insurers be reimbursing at least a few of these procedures? Over on the New York Times "Freakonomics" blog, plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Zenn points out: "Insurance companies often insist that surgery should treat a functional problem, not a cosmetic one. However, the distinction is not as black and white as they would like and there is a large gray area between the two." Zenn uses the following as an example: "We might all agree that a woman who is a C cup and wants to be a D cup should not be covered by insurance, but what about an 18-year-old girl who has one B cup breast and one D cup breast? Many would argue that this scenario creates a functional problem that is hard to describe as only cosmetic. What about a woman who has had a mastectomy and wants a reconstruction? Cosmetic?" More »
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According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, "revision plastic surgery" — in which a procedure is revised or reversed — makes up 50% of some doctors' practices. Women who drop thousands on a nose job often find they don't like the results and go in search of more surgery. The name this phenomenon is going by? Undo-plasty. We're not talking incredibly shrinking cartilage, à la Michael Jackson — think Courtney Love, who wrote she wanted to go back to "the mouth God gave me." Just something for dudes to keep in mind, since pectoral implant surgery has had a 99% increase. That's right, dudes are getting man boobs in record numbers. More »
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