Face Transplant

Face transplant is a skin graft that involves replacing part or all of a patient's face with a donor face. A face transplant is not something that is aimed at cosmetic enhancement. Instead, this emerging treatment is intended to give people with severe facial disfigurement better use of facial features such as eyes and lips and a more normal appearance than can be achieved through current reco ...

Date added: 02 April '06

Early Greek and Roman Medicine

by Ana Condor - Early Greek and Roman medicine The greek medicine appeared to be a lot more complicated than the tribal medicine . They treasured health and worked hard through examining and observing patients in order to become perfectionists. From the 6th century BC, the greeks had a famous healing centre at Epidaurus. It was believed that the god Asclepius was the god of healing. Th ...

Date added: 11 June '07

About Early Medicine

by Ana Condor - Ancient tribes 5000 years ago, people thought that illnesses are the result of evil living in humans bodies. They also believed that gods and superior spirits are punishing people through diseases. The practice of magic and witchcraft was popular amongst many tribes, through charms, images of gods and spells to drive away the evil spirits. A medicine man's kit would contain ...

Date added: 11 June '07

Plastic Surgery - For or Against It

by Herminne Tonita - Over the centuries women have tried to be as beautiful as they could and if nature didn't give them all they wanted so as to say they were really satisfied with their looks, they tried all the natural remedies to help them preserve their beauty. Now the situation is completely different. All this progresses around us in every aspect of our lives is also reflected in medi ...

Date added: 17 August '07

Husbands don't agree with their wives' plastic surgeries

by Herminne Tonita - You are determined to have a plastic surgery but your husband is totally against it. What is to be done in this case? Physical beauty is considered a feminine trait that is why the majority of the persons who choose to have this kind of medical intervention are women. Men wanting to do this are only exceptions. The canons of beauty have changed through out the centuries: ...

Date added: 04 September '07