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Everything '50s is hip again Cosmetic surgery and cocktails are helping keep Palm Springs eternal, Philippa Coates writes.

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Eventually, his compulsion shifted from his hair to his entire body. Sometimes he thought he was ... Therapy ended his BDD hell

Eventually, his compulsion shifted from his hair to his entire body. Sometimes he thought he was too thin, sometimes too fat or too tall. He describes the condition as "just a general feeling of ugliness."

At the time, Ream was attending the University of California at Los Angeles. He avoided going to class, and his grades dropped. He dated, but infrequently, and never told anyone about h...

If you're lucky, you'll find a mental-health professional who will diagnose a psychiatric illne... When the mirror lies...

If you're lucky, you'll find a mental-health professional who will diagnose a psychiatric illness called body dysmorphic disorder, an obsession with an imagined or slight physical defect. And you will be on your way to relief.

If you are not diagnosed, your life will become miserable. Or worse.

"It can be crippling," said Sabine Wilhelm, founder and director of the Body Dysmorphic...

Bariatric surgery -- the stomach-shrinking operation performed to treat obesity -- works, and it ... Leaving the Folds...

Bariatric surgery -- the stomach-shrinking operation performed to treat obesity -- works, and it is becoming safer all the time. But there's a catch often not understood by those who undergo the procedure: Once they lose the weight the surgery helps them lose, there may be more surgery to come -- surgery that is costlier and riskier and that requires a longer recovery time than the original op...

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Beauty pageants have been taking place since the dawn of time and a satirical view of them has be... The mind behind drop dead

Beauty pageants have been taking place since the dawn of time and a satirical view of them has been a long time coming. What’s interesting at the moment however is that while most women in the world with any self respect would have to be held at gun-point before they would even consider entering a beauty contest, it seems wannabe beauty queens in Chechnya are potentially risking their own...