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Rejuvenation nation: Increasing numbers of patients are opting to forgo the knife for the 'soft lift'

Dr. Caroline Tosoni says patients don't want to look different, they just want to look relaxed and rested. "There are non-invasive things we can do.

Growing numbers of Canadians are finding ways to rearrange their facial geography by navigating the middle ground between a facelift and doing nothing. Doctors who specialize in rejuvenation call this non-invasive process, which uses a combination of Botox and dermal filler, the "soft lift."

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Secondhand smoke tied to higher birth defect risk

Women exposed to second-hand smoke while pregnant are more likely to experience a stillbirth or have babies with birth defects, according to an analysis.

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Being too fat raises risk of deadly breast cancer: Study

Scientists know that being overweight increases the risk of breast cancers fed by estrogen, but being too fat may also increase the risk of triple-negative breast cancers, a less common and far more deadly...

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Rising status of women linked to more smoking

Millions of women in developing countries risk disease and early death in the coming decades as their rising economic and political status leads them to smoke more, researchers said Tuesday.

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Breast cancer rates have stopped falling: Study

Breast cancer rates among U.S. white women have stopped falling, U.S. researchers said on Monday, suggesting that the fallout from a 2002 study linking hormone replacement therapy to breast cancer was...

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Hot flashes early in menopause linked to reduced cardiovascular risk

There could be an upside to the hot flashes and cold sweats women experience at the beginning of menopause, American researchers suggest in a new study released Thursday.

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Common bone drugs increase risk of rare fractures: Study

Drugs widely prescribed to keep bones from breaking down increase the risk of rare and unusual fractures of the thigh bone, a large new Canadian study suggests.

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Common birth control pill not tied to heart attacks

Contrary to earlier signs that women on the Pill have a higher risk of heart disease, a new look at the medical literature found no link between heart attacks and the so-called mini-pills.

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Coming to terms with food obsession

One woman learned that change takes time, especially the time if takes to “learn about who we are and how we relate to food.”

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U.S. approves first 3-D mammogram

The first three-dimensional mammogram device was approved Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in the hopes that the new technology would improve early breast cancer detection.

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Miscarriage tied to family heart disease history

New findings suggest there could be a link between parents' heart disease and their grown-up daughter's risk of having miscarriages.

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How to protect your skin against winter

Got dry skin, cracked lips and itchy feet? Blame part of that on winter. Like a water-sucking vampire, the drop in humidity that marks this season in many areas can drain moisture from the skin.

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Canadian women getting fat fast: Global study

Canadian women are becoming overweight faster than almost any other women in the high-income world — and they're putting that weight easily as quickly as Canadian men, a major new global analysis shows...

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