Nip, tuck and frequent-flier miles: how anything-goes plastic surgery became the latest thing in adventure travel

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Thailand has fashioned itself into the world headquarters of discount plastic surgery, even promoting "medical tourism" packages. The Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok offers amenities such as cable television to visitors. The male-to-female sex-change procedure remains the hospital's most popular offering.

Cover Story, Thailand, Social policy, Surgery, Surgery, Plastic, Plastic surgery, Sex change

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The shyness syndrome

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Shyness is being classified as a pathology since the introduction and marketing of the psychotropic drug Paxil which is used to treat social phobia. Shyness is not measurable, nor is it a medical condition.

Drug therapy, Bashfulness, Shyness, Paxil (Medication), Social phobia

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The bathroom where you can give yourself a daily brain scan

Article Abstract:

Advances in self-health screening technology are expected to go down by the year 2010, allowing more people to operate their own screening clinics, probably in their own houses.

Innovations, Software, Health, Self-care, Health, Self care (Health)

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