Book Review: Bonk Mar 29, 2008
In a similar spirit, there's the study on "labial traction as an instigator of female orgasm," conducted by a team of Colombian researchers in the mid-1980s. Heli Alzate, a physician and professor of sexology, and Mari Ladi Londoo, a psychotherapist, mustered 16 prostitutes and 32 feminists into their lab, where they manually stimulated their vaginal walls. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
3M buys supplier of orthodontic technology Oct 15, 2007
So-called "lingual" orthodontics have been around since the 1970s, but those braces generally cost more, are tougher to put on and clean, and require longer treatment than do "labial" braces, which fit around each individual tooth. Lingual braces can also affect the speech and tongue, at least initially. (Dallas Business Journal, TX)
Should Pregnant Women Eat More Seafood? Oct 6, 2007
The G-shot, labial reduction, vaginal rejuvenation. What s next. (New York Times)
Demand for 'Designer Vagina' Surgery Rising in UK May 28, 2007
Writing in the British Medical Journal, they said the number of "labial reductions" carried out in National Health Service hospitals had doubled to 800 a year over five years. Editor's Picks. (ABC News)
'Designer vagina' craze blasted May 28, 2007
Not only is there a disturbing lack of data about the phenomenon, there has been negligible assessment about surgical after-effects and almost zero reflection as to whether a labial "problem" exists in the first place, the BMJ says angrily. In 2004-5, 800 "labial reductions" were conducted by Britain's state-run National Health Service, more than a doubling of the figure of six years earlier. (iAfrica.com)
Doctors Warn against Vaginal Cosmetic Surgery May 27, 2007
Taking the quest for ideal beauty to the nether regions, more and more women are undergoing labial surgery ... In 2004 and 2005, the British National Health Service performed 800 labial reductions -- six times as many as in 1998 and 1999 ... Liao and Creighton report that of the 490,000 results from a "labial reduction" Google search, 47 of the first 50 results were advertisements from US and UK clinics offering the surgery. (Spiegel Online)
Top medical journal blasts 'designer vagina' craze... May 25, 2007
Not only is there a disturbing lack of data about the phenomenon, there has been negligible assessment about surgical after-effects -- and almost zero reflexion as to whether a labial "problem" exists in the first place, the BMJ says angrily. In 2004-5, 800 "labial reductions" were conducted by Britain's state-run National Health Service (NHS), more than a doubling of the figure of six years earlier. (The Drudge Report)
'Designer vagina' surgery rising in UK May 25, 2007
Writing in the British Medical Journal, they said the number of "labial reductions" out in National Health Service hospitals had doubled to 800 a year over five years. "More and more women are said to be troubled by the shape, size or proportions of their vulvas", wrote Lih Mei Liao and Sarah Creighton from London's UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
The high price of American beauty Oct 29, 2006
New procedures include 'umbilicoplasty' (belly button enhancement), 'vaginoplasty' (the laser reduction of loose labial lips), and nipple enlargement. Women have toes shortened to fit into stilettoes. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Medivir AB Announce Worldwide Collaboration to Develop and Commercialize MIV-170 for the Treatment of HIV-1 Infection in Adults Sep 13, 2006
Medivir's research portfolio embraces projects on hepatitis C, labial herpes, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), asthma, multiple sclerosis (MS). Medivir has seven individual projects in development, of which one is in phase III development. (PR Newswire)
human natureThe case for genital mutilation.William Saletan Aug 26, 2006
Their founding declaration , in the same breath, "foreskin, clitoral, or labial amputation." The ICGI has even proposed an international legal code removal of the foreskin with removal of the clitoris. Have these people lost their heads. (Slate)
'8th & Ocean' pouts, purges Mar 24, 2006
" Translation? Heaven. If MTV were any better at finding that special spot under my labial hood, I might have to add it as a friend on facebook.com and file for child support. Set in Miami (in case you're too ugly to deduce that from the title), the show chronicles the lives of 10 models, six of whom are females and four males, and their epic journey into the cutthroat modeling industry. Irene Marie, proud owner of both the agency and multiple reconstructive surgeries (think orange Birkin meets... (Yale Daily News, CT)
Plastic Surgery Goes South Mar 13, 2006
Across the country, post-pubescent and peri-menopausal women alike are having their vaginas tightened, their mons pubis liposuctioned, their labial folds nipped and their clitoral hoods tucked. Most are seeking to restore what plastic surgeons are calling "a more youthful look" to this long-secreted corner of the female anatomy and often to improve their sex lives in the process. (Los Angeles Times)
Dr. Carlos Wolf/Plastic Surgery 101 Dr. Carlos Wolf: Thermage tightens; it's not a face-lift Feb 21, 2006
Thermage is for patients in need of skin tightening around the jowls, nasal labial area and the eyes. It is for a person who is not ready for a face-lift, but could use some rejuvenation of the face. (Miami.com, FL -- Health)
Banishing Those Baggy Eyes Without Surgery Feb 20, 2006
It was first used to fill out nasal labial folds, but now it's being used under the eyes to plump up sunken and wrinkled skin. The injection may not completely get rid of the dark skin under the eyes but it is claimed that it diminishes the hills and valleys that one gets along the cheek / eyelid border. (CBS New York, NY)
