A 15-minute nose job without the cutting? It sounds almost too good to be true. Thanks to Radiesse, an injectable facial filler, patients can get the nose of their dreams in literally minutes. Radiesse, manufactured by BioForm Medical, Inc., is a gel like substance that is made up of calcium hydroxylapatite. Because calcium is a natural mineral found in our bones, it will not cause any allergic reactions and is completely biodegradable says the Cosmetic & Laser Skin Surgery Center of New York...

Doesn't it seem like the moment you decide you want to lose weight you become absolutely OBSESSED with food? Any trip down a supermarket aisle becomes a journey fraught with guilt, longing and disappointment (ohmygawd, it sounds like my last relationship!). You stay away from restaurants, stop accepting invitations to dinner parties and forage among the celery sticks and flavored water in the fridge trying to find the diet vodka. Thankfully, you now have the option to outsource your meal ...

Are you desperate for a cosmetic procedure, but don't have the funds to pay for it? Perhaps you should follow in the footsteps of one hairy consumer, and turn to the Internet for a little unorthodox financing. Visitors to the site MillionDollarPubes.com are asked to purchase pubic hair (at $200 a strand) to help finance the creator's laser hair removal treatments. Sadly, buyers won't receive their purchase framed and mounted, nor will they receive a Thank You note from the seller, who rem...

As reported by CNN.com, researchers have discovered a possible link between obesity and adenovirus-36, a common virus from a family of viruses that cause colds and pinkeye. The article stresses that most of America's obese population became super-sized the ol' fashion way: eating more calories than they burned. However, when researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center exposed the virus to adult stem cells, "More than half the stem cells exposed to the virus turned into fat cells ...

Would you end a friendship because you were afraid of getting fat? That may sound like a silly question, but research shows there are at least three ways to catch obesity from your friends. Now, we aren't suggesting you cut ties with all your heavy-set friends, but it is important to know what puts you at risk. And when it comes to gaining weight, hanging out with obese friends very definitely puts you at risk. The "Fat" Virus: Ad-36 For me, not much is scarier than knowing there's a ...

If you're 20 years old and male (or want to be), you're probably reading this while clutching an ice cold can of some brightly-colored sweetened beverage loaded with things like caffeine, taurine, sugar and guarana. In other words, an "energy" drink. In the last few years, the market for energy drinks has exploded - buoyed in part by the success of Red Bull - and enthusiastically adopted by male teenagers and twenty-somethings, who also enthusiastically use energy drinks as mixers with vo...

Button noses, washboard stomachs, voluptuous lips, and perfect, perky breasts. That's what people expect to get when they go under the knife. Unfortunately, it isn't always the case. As anyone who's seen "Nip/Tuck" knows, there's a dark side to plastic surgery, most often involving ruthless doctors, illegal back-alley procedures, and charlatans posing as doctors. Like a bad car accident, we just can't look away. Be forewarned-these horrific headline-making tales of surgeries gone terribly wro...

Back in the 90's, when self tanner was surging onto the market, I remember watching a light-skinned friend turn a rusty shade of orange seemingly overnight. She suffered from what I like to call the "self tanner dirt effect," where the stain from the lotion faded into pale on her hands and feet, and a streak or two of tanning product mixed with sweat rippled down her legs. Over a decade and a half later, I've sampled just about every product on the market, completing my own quest for the perf...

4.1 millions Americans underwent Botox injections in 2006. That's a pretty hefty number considering Botulinum Toxin Type A wasn't FDA approved for use in the treatment of wrinkles and frown lines until 2002. How long will Botox remain the #1 Minimally Invasive Cosmetic Procedure? I recently turned to several experts in the field of plastic surgery to find out which new products and procedures threaten to wipe Botox off the cosmeceutical map. MesoGlow Available in France since the 19...

If what they say about men with big hands is true, this guy would surely win a place on our World's Largest Penises list. For now, though, China's Liu Hua has his, um, hands full with one bodily distinction already: the world's largest hand. Or he did. According to Shanghaiist.com, Liu just underwent surgery to reduce the size of his oversized fingers and thumb, which measured 26 centimeters (thumb), 30 centimeters (index finger), and 15 centimeters (middle finger) respectively, reports Th...

When it comes to gender equality, there's one thing women would gladly sacrifice: baldness. Unfortunately, even our pretty locks start to thin as we age. But if men can have their Rogaine, women can have their Boots Expert Hair Loss Treatment Spray. That's right - The Daily Mail is reporting that the leading British pharmacy brand Boots has developed a hair growth treatment spray for women. Made with coffee beans, the spray is said to restore fullness to hair strands and trigger hair growt...

The most nutritious, powerful, healthy food supplement on the planet may be...POND SCUM. You probably never knew it, but that green sludgy bacteria called Spirulina floating on the water hazard in your local golf course could be your key to anti-aging, heart health and a strong immune system. Spirulina is the common name for free-floating "filamentous cyanobacteria" which grows in tropical and subtropical lakes and ponds. It is cultivated around the world, and available in tablet, flake an...

Remember how you freaked out and bought a year's worth of wrinkle cream on your 25th birthday because you thought you were "sooooooo oooooold"? And how you feel like you're going to shrivel up and die if the bartender doesn't ask to see some ID? Well, imagine trying to blow out 122 candles on your birthday cake, or having lived during three centuries. Now that's old. The old-timers on this list aren't just elderly - they're practically antiques. And though having the title as the "world's old...

So you weren't born with a set of cute little dimples when you smile and you think that you might like to add one? No problem! Just ask Jesse from Inglewood, Colorado. Born with a dimple on the left hand side of her cheek, Jesse wanted to even out her smile by adding a dimple to her right. The surgery is a relatively simple procedure done under local anesthesia. A small incision is made inside the mouth, and a small suture loop is then added to create the right size indentation in the che...

Bummed about your dress size? Blame mom and dad. According to a new study conducted by Dr. Jonathan Graff at The University of Texas, humans may carry a gene that determines whether or not they gain weight or maintain slender figures. But before you add this to your mile-long list of parental grievances, take heart. The Daily Mail reports that that identifying this "skinny gene" could result in more effective weight loss treatments if doctors are able to manipulate it. Explains Graff,...