Liposuction used to have a shocking repuation. Not so today. It is sophisticated, highly technical and minimally invasive.
SAVING FACE – surgeon messianic about collagen
“Clients want, rattle, smoke, vibrate (and roll) when it comes to anti-ageing,” says Dr Eric Schulte. That is not what QMS does. He launches into the reasons using complex scientific information with such bonhomie and simplicity that you forget he is an acclaimed plastic surgeon and traumatologist in Göttingen University Clinic in Germany.
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Angelina Jolie – Off my chest
There’s more to breast cancer that Angelina. Jolie’s call for genetic testing and a double mastectomy has done little for breast cancer awareness.
Electro-convulsive therapy – a bad rep?
Electric shock treatment of any nature has an image issue – courtesy of Josef Mengele’s horrific experiments in the holocaust where high-voltage electric shocks were administered under the guise of testing endurance; the SANDF 1970s aversion therapy to ‘cure’ homosexuals and death-row prisoners being led to the electric chair, strapped down and then fried in front of an audience. Then came the early attempts at electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as shock therapy. Medications, like insulin, were first used to induce seizures in 1938. Insulin causes a sudden drop in glucose, which causes the brain to develop seizures as a sign of distress. That’s because blood glucose is the only ‘fuel’ the brain can use for its energy needs, if deprived of glucose.