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Americans used to know silicone, a synthetic rubber, mainly from Silly Putty and, more controversially, from breast implants. But in recent years cooks have been deluged with silicone spatulas, cake pans, muffin tins, potholders, colanders and ties. Silicone kitchen tools have been lending a playful, psychedelic air to kitchens across the country, especially those where stark, sophisticated stainless steel had been the coin of the realm. The new tools appear in colors from electric green and royal purple to sweetheart pink and terra cotta and come in every shape imaginable. Clearly, the designers are having a ball. And so are the manufacturers and retailers of housewares. According to HomeWorld Business, a magazine that serves the housewares industry, silicone products make up about 7 percent of the bakeware business.
Swedish Cancer Institute First in the World to Offer GPS for the Body(R) to Assist With Precision-Guided Prostate ...
SEATTLE, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish Cancer Institute today announced it is the first cancer-care program in the world to provide prostate cancer patients commercial access to the Calypso(R) 4D Localization System for precision-guided radiation therapy delivery to the prostate with continuous, objective, organ-motion tracking accuracy. Radiation therapy is used to treat about one million cancer patients in the United States each year and is very effective in destroying cancer cells. However, in prostate cancer treatment the most common side effects arise when the radiation beam misses the prostate but irradiates adjacent healthy organs causing complications like impotence, urinary incontinence and rectal bleeding. Therefore, doctors must guard against damaging healthy tissues that surround the tumor caused by misalignment and unpredictable tumor motion.
Pop singer Burns sues over botched lip surgery
LONDON: Pop star Pete Burns yesterday revealed he is suing his plastic surgeon for "wrecking his career and life". Burns, singer with 1980s pop band Dead or Alive, has had several cosmetic procedures on his face and is suing a Harley Street surgeon for an estimated £1mn over a botched attempt to remove lip implants. In an exclusive interview he told the Standard he looked like he had been "mutilated with a Stanley knife" after surgery to correct the original problems left his top lip hanging off. The singer, who re-surfaced in last year's Celebrity Big Brother, has had more than 100 operations by specialists in Italy to try to correct the damage but fears he will always be disfigured. Speaking from Italy, where surgeon Giovanni Ferrando is due to operate again on his lips, Burns said: "It has taken away my life and my career.
The Fatty Issue
WE'VE had the Atkins diet, the blood group diet, the cabbage soup diet, and now the liposuction "diet". As any woman will tell you, when it comes to losing weight, a "by-any-means-necessary" approach is not uncommon. However, those "means" included a painful surgical procedure at a cost of £3,000 for around 4,000 Brits who had liposuction treatments last year, most of whom were women. For the majority of us, the result of liposuction sounds like a dream. Imagine going to sleep and waking up a couple of hours later to find yourself a few pounds lighter, without the punishing workouts and miserable diets usually associated with weight loss. .
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