Health&Beauty- Page 113

The FINANCIAL -- SINGAPORE. The contact lens industry continues to perform well in 2010, registering a healthy 12 percent growth across the five combined markets monitored by GfK Asia—Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia an d Taiwan. According to GfK’s full year

The FINANCIAL -- Laser epilation, anti-cellulite massage and solariums are again in high demand as summer is getting closer. The number of women consumers rises significantly in spring, so most of the aesthetic centres in Tbilisi say. 

The FINANCIAL -- Staying fit, not gaining fat or even losing any extra gained kilos from the holiday season is the only concern for many after New Year. The FINANCIAL interviewed specialists for advice on how to keep fit or get back

The FINANCIAL -- Sex change operations are not common in Georgia, so far at Kuzanov Clinic only seven operations have been done to true transsexuals, all of them women transforming in to men.

The FINANCIAL -- “According to recent statistics 70,000 individuals, which is roughly 4-5% of the population, face the problem of obesity in Georgia,” said Nikoloz Gvakharia, doctor-surgeon at Kuzanov Clinic.

The FINANCIAL -- “Aesthetic surgery is the surgery of beauty,” says Professor Iva Kuzanov, Kuzanov Clinic.

The FINANCIAL -- Reconstructive surgery, one of the directions at Kuzanov Clinic, is a type of plastic surgery that mainly addresses reshaping structures of the body to improve function and appearance.

The FINANCIAL -- Scios Inc. announced on November 14 that the landmark investigational study of NATRECOR (nesiritide) for the treatment of acutely decompensated heart failure (ADHF), ASCEND-HF, demonstrated no statistically significant difference from placebo in the co-primary endpoints of dyspnea, measured at six and

The FINANCIAL -- A plastic surgery boom started in Georgia several years ago and since then different kinds of plastic operations have risen in popularity among Georgians. The nose operation is the most demanded plastic surgery in Georgia. Alexander Kalantarov, MD PhD