All posts by MWN
Buy one, get one free on breast ops
The Sunday Times Published 15 July 2012 Lois Rogers COSMETIC surgeons are offering supermarket-style discounts for multiple breast enlargements, nose jobs and fat-removal operations in order to boost business. Mothers and daughters are among groups of women being attracted by “buy one, get one half-price” style offers. Online shopping carts and time-limited no-refund special offers […]
Britain’s power women are getting slimmer
The Sunday Times Published 24 June 2012 Lois Rogers IT IS the phenomenon that is providing experts with plenty of food for thought: while everyone else is piling on the pounds, professional women are slimming down. According to official figures from the National Obesity Observatory (NOO), an organisation established in 2007 to provide authoritative data […]
Weedkiller linked to birth defects
The Sunday Times Published: 29 April 2012 Lois Rogers A GROUP of British women whose children were born with the same birth defect believe it may be linked to a banned weedkiller which is the subject of a multi-million dollar lawsuit in America championed by Erin Brockovich. At least nine babies born to mothers living within a […]
Conflicts of interest in medicine and science
The European Journal of Cardiology Published: 7 April 2012 Lois Rogers. Following the recent European Society of Cardiology initiative,1 Lois Rogers reports on this important topic Doctors, medical institutions, and governments themselves have been forced to recognize that conflicts of interest are beginning to shake public faith in the medical profession. Some of these conflicts have […]
‘Duracell’ pump gives new hope to heart patients
The Sunday Times Published: 26 February 2012. Lois Rogers. A young father has become the first person in Britain to benefit from a revolutionary heart pump designed to save thousands of people who would otherwise die waiting for a transplant. The tiny pump is the first intended for permanent use. Previous versions for the heart […]
Man gives birth to baby
The Sunday Times Published: 12 February 2012 Lois Rogers A man who was born as a woman has become Britain’s first “male mother” by giving birth despite his sex change operation. The man, in his thirties, delivered the child last year after having hormone treatment to reactivate his womb, according to a charity advising him. […]
Miracles can happen
The science behind anti-ageing creams is increasingly becoming fact rather than fiction. The Sunday Times, Published: 29 January 2012, Lois Rogers As consumers, we’ve been sceptical for years about how much anti-ageing the beauty world can really deliver. As beauty merges more with science, however, that outlook is due for a shake-up. Proctor & Gamble has […]
Flash, bang, dollop – ingredients used in film ‘stop signs of ageing’
The Sunday Times Published: 22 January 2012 Lois Rogers The chemical process that stops old photographic negatives from fading has been adapted to do much the same for people, a cosmetics manufacturer claims. With digital cameras killing off traditional photographic film, the Japanese company Fujifilm has partly reinvented itself as a supplier of anti-ageing treatments […]
Anti-ageing cream ‘tricks’ skin into regenerating
The Sunday Times Published: 01 January 2012. Lois Rogers. Cosmetics companies are preparing to unveil a new generation of anti-ageing treatments that mimic the actions of the molecules responsible for skin renewal. The first consumer product based on the emerging science of glycobiology – using sugars found naturally in the body to improve health – […]
First diet pill that doesn´t make you ill
The Sunday Times Published: 18 December 2011. Lois Rogers. Scientists are close to producing a drug that helps the obese lose weight by removing the pleasure of eating without bad side effects The pharmaceutical firm Pfizer is conducting clinical trials on a compound which, it hopes, will stop the obese from feeling hungry by mimicking […]