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A British tourist recently died after she allegedly flew to Philadelphia to get silicone injections into her buttocks at a Hampton Inn, sources say.
Police are executing a search warrant at the Hampton Inn on Bartram Avenue Tuesday afternoon with suspicions that someone is renting rooms in which he or she performs butt implant procedures, sources say.
Suspicions of these hotel-room medical procedures came about after a woman visiting from England allegedly died after a butt enhancement procedure and was taken to a local hospital, according to court documents.
Several women from England recently traveled to Philadelphia to receive butt-implant procedures in hotel rooms, court documents say.
The Delaware County medical examiner’s autopsy is not yet complete.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41478945/A British tourist recently died after she allegedly flew to Philadelphia to get... more
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TOKYO — While on the lam for 2½ years, a Japanese man wanted for the murder of a British woman says he scissored off his lower lip, dug two moles out of his cheek with a box cutter and gave himself a nose job in an attempt to obscure his identity.
The disclosures come in a book released Wednesday and written from jail by Tatsuya Ichihashi, who will stand trial later this year in the murder and rape of his English teacher, Lindsay Ann Hawker.
Hawker, 22, was found dead in a sand-filled bathtub on the balcony of Ichihashi's apartment in Chiba, east of Tokyo, in March 2007.
Ichihashi, arrested in 2009 after a lengthy nationwide manhunt, admits to taking Hawker's life in the book, "Until the Arrest." But he doesn't describe the crime or his motives, instead detailing his life at large, during which he traveled up and down the country, in constant fear of arrest and obsessed with cosmetic surgery.
While police say Ichihashi has confessed to assaulting Hawker and that she died from her injuries, he won't enter a plea until the trial begins. The details in the book do not take responsibility for anything beyond what Ichihashi has already told investigators. If convicted of murder, he could face the death penalty.
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After escaping the police who came to his apartment to question him, he bound up his nose with a thread and needle — like a cook trussing a piece of meat — to make it narrower.
At first, Ichihashi, 32, wandered around Tokyo and then drifted north to Aomori prefecture, where he twice tried to cut off part of his lower lip to make it thinner. The first time, he couldn't follow through because of the excruciating pain, he wrote. He finished it up a few days later in a public bathroom.
He wore several layers of surgical masks to hide the scars, but apparently didn't stand out in the spring when many Japanese do the same to escape pollen.
Moving by train and bus, Ichihashi headed south and embarked on a pilgrimage of temples in the southwestern island of Shikoku, wishing Hawker could "come back to life" — an idea he got from a novel, in which the dead are resurrected after someone who is thinking of them tours the same temples.
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Books written by Tatsuya Ichihashi are shown at a bookstore in Tokyo.
"I took Lindsay's life, that fact does not change," he wrote in the 238-page book released by publishing house Gentosha, its cover depicting Ichihashi's drawing of himself: a man wearing a baseball cap and a surgical mask.
While at large, Ichihashi carefully avoided monitoring cameras at shops and eye contact with anyone. He changed his location quickly and often when he thought he might have been spotted. He never contacted his family or friends.
Police offered a reward of 10 million yen ($121,000) for tips leading to his arrest.
Once he walked past a police station and saw a wanted poster with his face on it. It was then that he sliced off the moles on his left cheek — prominent in the wanted picture.TOKYO — While on the lam for 2½ years, a Japanese man wanted for the... more
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TOKYO - While on the lam for 2 ½ years, a Japanese man wanted for the murder of a British woman scissored off his lower lip, dug two moles out of his cheek with a box cutter and gave himself a nose job in an attempt to obscure his identity.
The disclosures come in a book released Wednesday and written from jail by Tatsuya Ichihashi, who will stand trial later this year in the murder and rape of his English teacher, Lindsay Ann Hawker.
Hawker, 22, was found dead in a sand-filled bathtub on the balcony of Ichihashi's apartment in Chiba, east of Tokyo, in March 2007.
Ichihashi, arrested in 2009 after a lengthy nationwide manhunt, admits to taking Hawker's life in the book, "Until the Arrest." But he doesn't describe the crime or his motives, instead detailing his life at large, during which he traveled up and down the country, in constant fear of arrest and obsessed with cosmetic surgery.
While police say Ichihashi has confessed to assaulting Hawker and that she died from her injuries, he won't enter a plea until the trial begins. The details in the book do not take responsibility for anything beyond what Ichihashi has already told investigators. If convicted of murder, he could face the death penalty.
After escaping the police who came to his apartment to question him, he bound up his nose with a thread and needle - like a cook trussing a piece of meat - to make it narrower.
At first, Ichihashi, 32, wandered around Tokyo and then drifted north to Aomori prefecture (state), where he twice tried to cut off part of his lower lip to make it thinner. The first time, he couldn't follow through because of the excruciating pain, he wrote. He finished it up a few days later in a public bathroom.
He wore several layers of surgical masks to hide the scars, but apparently didn't stand out in the spring when many Japanese do the same to escape pollen.
Moving by train and bus, Ichihashi headed south and embarked on a pilgrimage of temples in the southwestern island of Shikoku, wishing Hawker could "come back to life" - an idea he got from a novel, in which the dead are resurrected after someone who is thinking of them tours the same temples.
"I took Lindsay's life, that fact does not change," he wrote in the 238-page book released by publishing house Gentosha, its cover depicting Ichihashi's drawing of himself: a man wearing a baseball cap and a surgical mask.
While at large, Ichihashi carefully avoided monitoring cameras at shops and eye contact with anyone. He changed his location quickly and often when he thought he might have been spotted. He never contacted his family or friends.
Police offered a reward of 10 million yen ($121,000) for tips leading to his arrest.
Once he walked past a police station and saw a wanted poster with his face on it. It was then that he sliced off the moles on his left cheek - prominent in the wanted picture.
Having saved nearly 1 million yen ($12,100) from a string of construction jobs, he spent most of it on two plastic surgery operations, once to acquire a longer and narrower nose, and the second to raise the bridge of his nose.
In the end, his attempts to obscure his identity led to his arrest.
Staff at the second clinic took many photos of his left cheek with traces of moles he had removed, which seemed "strange."
The clinic reported his visit and sent the photos to police - news that was splashed in Japanese newspapers.
Ichihashi said he froze when he saw the news on TV about his cosmetic surgery.
"My heart raced," he wrote. "I gazed at it trembling."
He immediately checked out of his hotel, got a haircut and even bought a party disguise set containing a beard, sideburns and a mustache.
He was eventually stopped on Nov. 10, 2009, by police at the ferry terminal in Osaka as he tried to flee again. One of the officers asked his name.
Ichihashi gave his real name for the first time in 2 1/2 years and was arrested.
In his book, Ichihashi apologizes to Hawker and her family, saying the book was intended as "a gesture of contrition for the crime I committed."
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/26/20110126japan-man-gives-self-surgery-after-murder.html#ixzz1CF0c1rKQTOKYO - While on the lam for 2 ½ years, a Japanese man wanted for the murder of... more
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From NBC's reality television show "The Biggest Loser" to the first lady's campaign against childhood obesity, the battle of the bulge is being waged on all fronts, including the operating table.
The Lap-Band, a surgically-implanted device that cinches the stomach and drastically restricts food intake, has been touted as a vital weapon in the "war on obesity" by some health researchers and bariatric surgeons. Approximately 80 percent of those who elect for the Lap-Band are women.
Last month, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended lowering the eligibility threshold for this elective weight loss surgery, from a body mass index (or BMI) of 35 to a BMI of 30 if an existing health issue such as diabetes is present. (BMI is calculated using a National Institute of Health formula, based on weight and height. Someone who is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds, for instance, has a BMI of 25.8.)
The recommendation comes at a time when many are growing deeply concerned about the negative affects of weight loss surgery, including possibly high suicide rates after the procedure.
For Eric Oliver, the FDA panel's nod to the procedure is troubling.
"What I worry about is, to what extent is bariatric surgery becoming a form of cosmetic surgery?" said Oliver, a political science professor at the University of Chicago and author of the 2005 book "Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic."
Oliver challenges conventional wisdom about the correlation between weight and health with a simple yet provocative idea: Being thin doesn't necessarily make you healthier.
While Americans have undeniably been getting heavier over the past 20 years, Oliver suggests that our nation's weight gain isn't due to an underlying obesity "disease," but because of fundamental changes in lifestyle and eating habits.
Lap-Band is the only general surgery that is currently advertised, making it more widespread--and lucrative--than other non-elective surgical procedures that offer no cosmetic benefits. (You'd never get your gallbladder or appendix removed unless you absolutely had to, right?)
http://www.womensenews.org/story/medicine/110118/lap-band-critics-decry-excess-rhetoric-weightFrom NBC's reality television show "The Biggest Loser" to the first... more
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But then I spotted a squib of a headline below a photo about the size of a matchbook cover:
Leann’s new boobs.
Like you, I have grown up in the Golden Age of Advertising, so the word “new” grabbed my attention. The picture, purportedly of Leann, showed her in a bathing suit covering about half of the purportedly new boobs, but I really had no way of knowing: I never had met the old ones. I never had met Leann, for that matter. I still don’t know her last name or why she’s magazine material.
Suddenly, irrational fear gripped my heart. What if, someday soon, I meet Leann?But then I spotted a squib of a headline below a photo about the size of a matchbook... more
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The reality star, still enjoying covers awarded for narcissism, tells Life&Style about her botched surgeries and basically blames her deceased doctor, again, for inflicting horrible cosmetic surgery scars all over her body.
More: http://amygrindhouse.com/heidi-montag-scars.htmlThe reality star, still enjoying covers awarded for narcissism, tells Life&Style... more
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After bringing her plastic procedures to the double digits, she is now mentioning regret. According to Heidi, “I would love to not be ‘plastic girl’ or whatever they call me. Surgery ruined my career and my personal life and just brought a lot of negativity into my world...
http://www.bittenandbound.com/2010/12/22/finally-feeling-sorry-for-heidi-montag/After bringing her plastic procedures to the double digits, she is now mentioning... more
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Plastic surgery could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to an invisible adhesive strip which gives an "instant eyelift " to make one look years younger.
A team from Eye Secrets company, which has designed the the strip, says it will combat the common signs of ageing for millions of men and women by neutralising the excess skin over the eyelids and restoring the eye to its natural youthful shape, the 'Daily Mail' reported. http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/924026/FeaturedArticles/14/54/14Plastic surgery could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to an invisible adhesive... more
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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
The woman gunning for Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) job doesn’t believe that autism exists.
Yes, you heard right. Sharron Angle believes that the neurodevelopmental disorder know to medical science as “autism” is actually a government-backed hoax to redistribute wealth from hardworking health insurers to pesky kids and their greedy parents.
Angle was caught on tape promising to abolish mandatory insurance coverage for autism. “Everything that they want to throw at us is covered under ‘autism’,” Angle told the American Association of Underwriters this summer, tracing scare quotes with her fingers as she said “autism.”
Care2’s Kristina Chew, the mother of a 13-year-old boy with autism, responds to Angle’s airy dismissal:
…By saying that you don’t think there should be health care for autism, I take it that you don’t think that children, and individuals, with disabilities are in need of such things—living with their families and in their communities, healthy and safe, being loved and cared for? Being treated as we would all like to be?
The fact that Angle opposes mandated coverage for private insurers should concern voters, especially since she wants to privatize all government health care programs. In other words, Angle wants to turn health care over to the private sector and stamp out public competition. And yet, Angle’s campaign admits that the candidate and her husband receive both government health care and a Civil Service pension, according to Eric Kleefeld of TPM. If Angle is so morally opposed to government health care, she should set an example by declining the coverage.
Andy Kroll of Mother Jones has more on Angle’s record: She once told impregnated rape victims to buck up and make “lemons out of lemonade” by bearing their attacker’s child. Angle also denounced people on unemployment insurance as “spoiled.”
Food vs. health care
It may soon get even harder for poor families to make ends meet. The Senate is poised to slash the extra food stamp benefits in the stimulus before they expire. The Senate already raided $6.7 billion from the the so-called “food stamp cookie jar” to bail out Medicaid and save teachers’ jobs at the state level. Now they want to take even more money to fund the child nutrition bill.
The cuts would fund a marginal improvement in school lunches, notes Monica Potts of TAPPED. That’s all well and good, but why provide slightly better weekday lunches if the poorest children get less at every other meal?
Annie Lowery of the Washington Independent interviews anti-hunger activist Joel Berg about the cuts. Berg says that if the cuts go through, families will have to make do with considerably less than the current $4.50 per person per day. He notes that Congress wants to cut food stamp benefits in the face of rising food prices.
When families make do with less, healthy foods like fruits and vegetables will be the first casualty. Berg argues that it is economically short-sighted to prematurely terminate one of the most efficient economic stimuli in the entire stimulus package:
And we know that we aren’t only feeding people. We come at this from a moral position, a nutritional position, and an economic recovery position. This cut is so insane from an economic position as well — we know food stamps are the most effect form of stimulus. The jury is still out on parts of the stimulus — but the jury isn’t out on food stamps. It was a 1,000 percent, beyond home run grand slam success, if you’ll excuse me mixing metaphors. The money went to people who needed it, rapidly, and without a lot of bureaucracy.
In the Progressive, Ruth Conniff has a personal take on the politics of improving school lunches. Her kids’ school got a USDA Fresh Fruits and Vegetables grant to introduce more local produce into school meals.
“Bridalplasty”
The laws of Reality TV: 1) The most important thing in life is to be very beautiful so that a man will want to marry you; 2) You have until your wedding day to make yourself look like someone else.
The E! network is launching a new reality show in which brides-to-be receive free cosmetic surgery to make them look acceptable for their Special Day, as Stephanie Hallett reports at Ms. blog. Hallett notes that armchair psychiatrists are already diagnosing the contestants with Body Dysmorphic Disorder, a condition that causes sufferers to become obsessed with imagined physical imperfections.
Hallett also argues that competitive plastic surgery shows like Bridalplasty and The Swan are dramatic exaggerations. Labeling the contestants as “sick” or “crazy” implies that they are limited-edition freaks, not individuals on the extreme end of a continuum of self-loathing that affects most women.
Ectopic pregnancy
Anti-choicers have already attacked hormonal birth control as crypto-abortion. Their next target may be lifesaving surgery for a deadly complication of pregnancy. At RH Reality Check, Lon Newman writes about a young woman that survived a life threatening ectopic pregnancy.
An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg takes root outside the uterus, nearly always in a fallopian tube. Tubal pregnancies are among the deadliest gynecological emergencies because the woman can rapidly bleed to death if the tube ruptures. Obviously, once a fertilized egg takes root outside the uterus, there is no chance that it will survive. However, some anti-choice extremists still maintain that treating ectopic pregnancies is a kind of abortion.
One of the ectopic pregnancy survivor’s friends actually told her that she should have respected “God’s will” and refused lifesaving surgery. “I have had friends who said that I should have ‘gone with God’s will,’ imposing their beliefs on my will to live,” the woman said.
Some friend.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Pulse for a complete list of articles on health care reform, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
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if you're looking to get in on the cutting edge of crime, there's no more lucrative career during these wonderfully vain and self-absorbed times than fake plastic surgery. Take Ana Josefa Sevilla of Miami, a fraudulent M.D. specializing in the art of discount butt enhancement...
Our saga begins a few months back, when Lady Sevilla was trolling for customers outside a Miami spa. That's where she encountered Donia Rodriguez. The two women got to talking, and Donia complained that she didn't like the shape and contour of her butt. It was apparently lacking in all-encompassing bootiliciousness.
Sevilla, claiming to be a doctor, offered to make those worries go away for the low, low, everyday price of $1,100. So Donia showed up at Sevilla's fake medical practice for the procedure.
Sevilla first injected an unknown substance that she claimed was anesthesia. But fake anesthesia, just like fake doctors, doesn't seem to work very well. As Sevilla continued to drill Donia's butt with injections, the pain kept getting more unbearable, until Donia finally passed out.
She was so out of it after the procedure that she had to call her mom to pick her up. She would soon need surgery after developing severe infections, and she ended up spending two weeks in a hospital. Doctors believe she could have been killed -- or at least lost her leg -- if she waited any longer for treatment.
This isn't the first time a woman's nearly died from fake butt enhancement. Florida police say the practice is a damn-near epidemic. Women seeking to beautify themselves on the cheap have been injected with everything from super glue to Fix-A-Flat, the chemical used to repair car tires. They're also getting injected with silicone used for industrial purposes, not the medical kind.
All of which is endangering the good name of vanity in Florida -- and causing an out-break of lumpy and misshapen butts. Festering ass wounds, it would appear, just are catching on this season on the sands of South Beach.
Sevilla, meanwhile, has been hit with two counts of unlicensed practice of a health care profession and practicing medicine without a license.if you're looking to get in on the cutting edge of crime, there's no more... more
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Heidi Montag, the super bombshell of tinsel town and the gal who is found pretty much on the headlines. Heidi Montag’s boob slipped and this crunched the bigger leads all over the media and Internet.
http://www.buzztab.com/celebrity/heidi-montag-boob-comes-out-bikini/Heidi Montag, the super bombshell of tinsel town and the gal who is found pretty much... more
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Best movies ever doesn’t really know much about Tamara Drewe aside from the fact that the poster and all the movie stills the studio sent to us is telling us that they’ll be selling sexy for this film. Pretty men and women to hit the chick flick and gay market aka the Burlesque market.Best movies ever doesn’t really know much about Tamara Drewe aside from the fact... more
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Better with age? At left, Cher’s youthful glow at 64, at right, Cher in 2006.
Music icon CHER was snapped looking better than ever at a café in Old Burlington Street in London today. It appears as if the 64-year-old’s new-found regimen of cigarettes and cocktails has helped her “turn back time.” She’s seen enjoying a fag and Bloody Mary with a pal.
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Overseas Taiwanese who frequently return to the island might recommend savoring succulent street food or exploring Taipei's boisterous night markets. Or they may pass along the business card of a favorite plastic surgeon or dermatologist.
And why not? Taiwan has long been popular with its expatriate population as a medical-travel destination. At Taipei's abundant health care facilities, the equipment is modern and sophisticated, and most importantly, prices are considered a steal. Some of the biggest savings are in liver-transplant surgery, which runs to around $91,000, compared with some $300,000 in the U.S. (Read about medical tourism in Latvia.)
Price tags like that have built a small but devoted following for Taiwan's niche medical-tourism market, and it's about to get a lot more customers. Taiwan's neighbors across the strait have been making their way to the island for a nip or a tuck since travel restrictions for Chinese tourists were lifted in mid-2008. Now, in the latest of a series of agreements and concessions between China and Taiwan, Taipei announced last week that Chinese tourists will soon be allowed to travel individually to the island — a development that many medical-tourism proponents are hoping will be a boon to their industry.
Taiwan's current policy only permits controlled tour groups from the mainland, which limits options for Chinese who seek varied medical services. "Under group-travel restrictions, tourists are told where they can go and when. They can't deviate from the set itinerary," says David Wang, a plastic surgeon and chairman of the Taiwan Medical Tourism Development Association. "I've heard of a few people who will secretly come [for plastic surgery], perhaps under a fake name or by claiming they are here on business." Now, Chinese patients seeking operations can plan ahead and book Botox treatments and eye-bag or double-eyelid surgery at Wang's offices on their own schedule. (See the top 10 unusual medical treatments.)
Compared to those of its regional neighbors, Taiwan's medical-tourism industry is only in its infancy. Its output last year narrowly missed the $20 million mark, whereas revenue in more established Asian medical-travel industries, Singapore and Thailand, reached billions of dollars. Still, many enterprising people in Taiwan believe it has room to grow. "The dollar return per patient is the highest of any other business in the service industry," says Sammy Yen, general manager of Lion Travel's medical-tourism branch. Lion Travel, Taiwan's biggest travel agency, has spent the past year and a half building its medical-tourism services center. The company partnered with Chung Gung Medical Foundation, the largest private hospital chain on the island, and touts its newest business venture as the total package that caters to all hua ren, or members of the global Chinese community.(Comment on this story.)
Mainland tourists could be a huge boost. According to Taiwan government statistics, just over 972,000 tourists from China journeyed to the tear-shaped island in 2009 — a 195% jump from the figure in the previous year, when the two sides made transit and tourism agreements. Further encouraging cross-strait exchanges, last month Chinese aviation officials announced a 10% to 15% reduction in airfares for flights between the two sides. With over a million projected to visit this year, even more mainlanders will be emptying their wallets into Taiwan's service sector.
Wang, the plastic surgeon, already travels to China about once a month to promote his practice, and he isn't the only one. Many enterprising proponents of Taiwan's medical tourism have been making the cross-strait journey in the hopes that they, too, might entice more mainlanders to seek medical care on the island. "Not many people know about the quality of Taiwan's health care system," says Richard Wu, CEO of Taiwan Task Force for Medical Travel. "It's our priority to first put out Taiwan as a brand name and then promote individual hospitals for services."
The fact that these customers will now be able to travel to Taiwan solo will only help. "No one would join a group tour that lets everyone else know they are going for plastic surgery or other medical reasons," Yen says. "With individual travel, you can just tell your neighbor you are going to Taiwan for vacation."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2004023,00.html#ixzz0tseC1Xo2Overseas Taiwanese who frequently return to the island might recommend savoring... more
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30-year-old Sheyla Hershey expected to get attention from her chest after a surgery in June increased her bust to a world record setting 38KKK, but she didn’t anticipate it would be because her implants were threatening her life.
The 5′3″ native Brazilian who lives in Houston, has undergone 30 plastic surgery procedures costing more than $40,000. Most of these operations have been to increase her bust, but she has also had work done on her nose, lips, and butt.
Because Texas limits the amount of silicone that may be inserted into a human body, Hershey was forced to received her latest implant upgrade in Brazil, which implanted a gallon of silicon into Hershey’s chest. A month after the surgery, Hershey reported...
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/07/14/the-world%E2%80%99s-largest-breasts-may-cost-sheyla-hershey-her-life-pictures/30-year-old Sheyla Hershey expected to get attention from her chest after a surgery in... more
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