February 23, 2010
By Salma Khalik
POPULAR weight-loss drugs such as Reductil, banned in the European Union (EU) last month for raising one’s risk of heart attacks and strokes, will continue to be sold in Singapore.
The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) here said the drugs carry sufficient warning on their packaging, so it will allow their continued sale.
The EU’s health [...]
February 15, 2010
I remember reading with great interest, about procedures that weren’t all that common a few years ago, but were in the process of being perfected, where some surgeons were able to transfer fat from say, a woman’s thighs and buttocks or belly, or other common places where women tend to store their extra padding, to [...]
February 14, 2010
Franklin Heng’s death certificate shows he had punctures in his intestines due to liposuction
Property head honcho Franklin Heng died from punctures to his intestines sustained during liposuction surgery last December.
The 44-year-old’s death certificate, obtained by The Sunday Times last Friday, indicated that the cause of death was ‘multiple iatrogenic punctures of the intestines due to [...]
February 13, 2010
The method of transferring fat from one area of the body to another originally began over one hundred years ago in Germany in order to aid in a person’s facial deformity. Today it is a technique used in a variety of body regions for a variety of reasons.
An age old joke among women desiring a [...]
February 10, 2010
No, Sibutramine is the generic or chemical name of meridia. Sibutramine is also known as sibutramide hydrochloride monohydrate is a medication used in the treatment for overweight. Sibutramine is classified as a Schedule IV controlled substance in the United States.
Sibutramine also known in usa as Meridia and in europe as brand name Reductil (available in [...]
February 5, 2010
A Universite de Montreal research team is developing a pill composed of leptin, the protein that tells our brain to stop eating. ‘Mice deprived of leptin will not stop eating. They become so big they have trouble moving around,’ says Moise Bendayan, a pathology professor at the Universite de Montreal Faculty of Medicine who has [...]
