Cop-show fans can return to The Streets of San Francisco today, as CBS Home Entertainment releases Season 3, Volumes 1 and 2 on DVD.
One of the best police dramas of the 1970′s, Streets of San Francisco starred the late Karl Malden as Lieutenant Mike Stone and Michael Douglas as his energic partner, Assistant Inspector Steve Keller. Season 3 aired from fall 1974 to spring 1975, and was Douglas’s next-to-last with the series.
What makes the show so enduring is its pairing of two reputable actors – one already well-established and the other on the verge of his own star-making career – and their fantastic chemistry together. while some aspects of the show now feel understandably dated, it’s always a pleasure to watch Malden and Douglas working together. though Stone and Keller are very different in age and experience, the actors make it feel like they’re equals, because they mesh together so well.
For Douglas fans in particular, this is a great selection because it’s his pre-breakout role – the one where he established his name and learned much from Malden, whom he once referred to as “my mentor.” You get a chance to see him craft the character of Steve Keller over a long period of time, rather than the two hours of a feature film.
In addition to the success of the leads, Season 3 also boasts some wonderful guest appearances. The late Leslie Nielsen makes the season opener, “One Last Shot,” with his performance as alcoholic cop Joe Landers, who tries to cover up the accidental death of his partner. For people who are only familiar with Nielsen’s comedic roles in Airplane! or the Naked Gun movies, it’s a chance for you to see him in a totally different light.
And for a series that is now almost 40 years old, Streets of San Francisco looks remarkably solid on DVD. there are some scenes that show the muted colors and grain of age, but there are others that look as bright and clean as any present-day TV show on DVD, and the sound is without foible. It’s obvious that great care was taken with this DVD transfer.
The menus are simple and easy to navigate, and there’s closed-captioning for the hard of hearing.
The one complaint to be had is the one that is common to classic TV series on DVD: a lack of special features – although it’s forgiveable in this case because the two people who would make them worthwhile would be Malden and Douglas.
It’s unfortunate that the show is being released in volumes instead of whole seasons, of course, but that’s not a reason to avoid checking out what is a fantastic series.
Both volumes of The Streets of San Francisco can now be ordered using these links: Season 3, Volume 1and Season 3, Volume 2. It’s also worth noting that Season 4 – Douglas’s final season – will be released later this year and can be pre-ordered at a discount using this link. happy flashbacks, DVD fans!
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Video about Kris Jenner can be found everywhere. This may not relevant, just tell what you thing about this video:[yt][/yt]Kris Jenner, The Kardashians mother and manager, is the star of a new preview for the upcoming seventh season of the family’s reality show, “Keeping up With The Kardashians”. In the clip, Kris’ famous kids run in the room to tend to their mother, 56, as she wakes up to a huge trout pout.Kris seems to be taken aback by her appearance, leaving the audience to wonder if she’s had a bad reaction to cosmetic surgery or if she is just playing a practical joke.what do you think?Feel free to comment and share this blog post if you find it interesting!. Hi dolllllls!! just a friendly reminder to watch me on The Doctors tomorrow, may 16! Here’s a sneak peek shot from the shoot! Xoxo Check your local listing to find out what time The Doctors is on in your area! Photo courtesy of CBS Television Distribution/Stage 29 Productions LLC .
Chin implants, also known as "chinplants," are the fastest-growing plastic surgery in the United States, according to a new report from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), which represents 7,000 surgeons across the US, BBC News reported.
In 2011, almost 20,700 Americans got chin augmentation surgery, up 71 percent from 2010, according to CBS News. Equal amounts of men and women have opted for the surgery, according to ABC News.
"The chin and jawline are among the first areas to show signs of aging. People are considering chin augmentation as a way to restore their youthful look just like a facelift or eyelid surgery," ASPS President Malcolm Roth told Fox News. "We also know that as more people see themselves on video chat technology, they may notice that their jawline is not as sharp as they want it to be. Chin implants can make a dramatic difference."
Chin implants were most popular among men and women who were 55 and over, CBS News reported. 8,459 people in that age group opted for the surgery in 2011, followed by 5,075 people in their forties.
"Constantly seeing your own image staring back at you certainly does give one pause to assess all aspects of your image," Dr. Anita Sethna, assistant professor of otolaryngology at the Emory Facial Center in Atlanta, told ABC News. "The jawline and neckline are intimately associated with the chin, as this is the point of suspension of the rest of the neck."
to complete the procedure, which lasts 1 to 3 hours, a plastic surgeon makes pocket in front of the chin and under the muscles and inserts an implant made out of silicone or other materials, according to CBS.
Lip augmentations also increased 49 percent in 2011, as did cheek implants, which were up 47 percent. Laser skin resurfacing, soft-tissue fillers, and facelifts also saw small increases in popularity, HealthDay News reported.
Breast augmentation is still the overall most popular cosmetic surgery in America: 307,000 of the procedure were done in 2011, up four percent since 2010, according to the ASPS.
(CBS) The Cubs lost in the most Cubs way possible short of forfeiting due to locusts to open the 2012 season Thursday. good thing I’m at peace with that. But I still heard fans jumping off the ledge after the game, and that both makes me weep for sports fandom and hope that such people never come back. Overall, though, I think Cub Nation feels the same way I do about the season to come, so there is hope for sanity.
I hope White Sox fans can be realistic in majority as well. Be nice to Chris Rongey. It’s not his fault, but this is.
Oh, and happy Passover and Easter to all.
On to your questions. All emails and tweets are unedited.
What will be @DanMcNeil670‘s reasoning behind being absent? Time to play the DaanMaacNeeel Speculation Game! #TFMB—@Chiumbrella
I’ve actually been asked this question in private several times, and my answer every time is that I honestly do not know and have not inquired about it. (And to kill two birds with one stone, I don’t work at The Score studios, and I’ve been there twice total. The off-air goings-on rarely if ever make it to my ear, so as far as this question and others I get about Score guys and how they are personally, I can only say that every one I’ve met has been nothing but nice—off the air—to me, and I know little about any rumors that go around.)
I’ve had one conversation with Mac, and that was two years ago while we shared a cigarette outside the Boers and Bernstein Roast. I don’t even remember what we talked about, and I’m sure he wouldn’t recognize me if we crossed paths.
That said, whatever has had Mac off the air, I sincerely hope the outcome is positive. He seems like a good dude, and since he returned to The Score a few years ago, a void in entertaining midday radio has been filled. The way his absence has been treated light-heartedly on the air leads me to believe everything with him will be okay, and I’m glad if so.
During the school year, I’m teaching during most of the McNeil and Spiegel Show, but I’m lucky enough to be on Spring break for the next week and will definitely be tuning in on Monday when Danny Mac makes his triumphant return. then I’m sure he will do his best to quell the sewing circles out there speculating all the odd scenarios they have him supposedly in.
My money is on plastic surgery gone horribly wrong, by the way.
I just took a leak and the streams were split. One was clear, the other yellowish. Wtf? I’m dead serious. #TFMB—@JOSH_MCDANIELS
According to urologist Arthur Goldstein, M.D., one of the most common reasons for a split stream is doing one’s business standing up with just an unzippered fly. this can often be remedied by either urinating while sitting down or completely dropping one’s trousers while standing and urinating. I advise you to do one of the two at all times from now on, especially when at the Patriots offices and practice facilities and especially when your players are around.
As far as the separate colors, I believe it’s a metaphor for your future. On one side you have a clear, pure path, beckoning you to live and work in a positive fashion and not be an insane piece of garbage. On the other side, you have the dirty, nasty path—the one that pretty much sums up your coaching career thus far. you now have a Frostian opportunity here, and I hope to hear you someday say, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–/ I took the one less traveled by,/ And that without my pants.”
What are your feelings on sideline reporters – mild nuisance or pandering twits? As you can tell, I don’t think very highly of them. I’m all for the gaining of as much information as possible, but often projectile vomit when I hear someone asking, “What was going through your mind when you hit the game winning shot? Or “how do you plan on scoring more points than the opposite team?”
If 99% of athlete responses are just stock clichés anyway, then what’s the point? yes, every once in a while you get gems from Bart Scott, Shaq, Tony Allen, Carlos Zambrano, etc… but I can do without the good if it means getting rid of the bad. How can we make it end? (If we can’t make it end, then can’t all sideline reporters look like Erin Andres? Or maybe be Erin Andrews)—Eddie Griffin, Lincoln Square
I, too, hate most of the TV sideline reporter situation. The pregame, in-game, and postgame interviews with players and coaches are 99% awful and bring the viewer little to nothing of substance. The only information of use that sideline reporters convey during games is about injuries, but even then the sideline reporter is overall a useless middleman. Notice a baseball radio broadcast: rarely is there someone who reports from down near the field, yet injury information makes its way to the radio booth seemingly without any difficulty.
The one guy who gets it right is Zach Zaidman during WBBM Bears broadcasts, and I’m not just saying that because we’re both paid handsomely (ha!) by CBS or because we’re both handsome Gingers. Zaidman doesn’t bring any fluff to the broadcast—he’s sharp, to the point, thorough, and pertinent. That’s all I ask if there has to be someone on the field.
The sound bite gems that we get once in a while during sideline interviews wouldn’t really suffer if sideline reporters were eliminated. Personalities like Bart Scott, et al have a way of pushing to the surface no matter what, and there are still press conferences, locker room interviews, etc. that produce those great nuggets.
Erin Andrews has become an exception, not as far as what info she brings, but in that she has become bigger than her job. She is now part of viewing product, whether she likes it or not or will admit that or not. I begrudge her neither for being an attractive woman nor having a creepy throng of droolers that tune in to see her, and the same goes for other pretty faces who do the job such as Pierre McGuire. If the job exists and attractiveness helps somebody get that job, I can’t fault somebody for it. at the same time, I don’t tune in to a TV sports broadcast for T and A. Cheerleaders, flaunted boobies at Cubs games, and such exist to distract from what’s bad on the field/court/ice and tap into the animalistic nature of perverts and idiots. Sadly, broadcasters know that there are so many of those people that T and A warrants exposure on a broadcast.
Don’t get me wrong—me likey pretty ladies very much. I prefer my sports to be just sports, though.
Overall, the sideline reporter helps fill dead air, brings a faux sense of “being in the game” for the viewer, tells useless emotional background stories, and relays injury information. Essentially, the sideline reporter is the appendix of sports media—doesn’t help, can kill.
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By Tess Lynch on March 29, 2012 11:45 AM ETRobert Voets/CBS
Now that Colton — with holes where his heart and appendix used to hang out — has been shuttled off of Survivor: one World, I had some concerns about things getting dull around camp. I shouldn’t have, because look at Tarzan: rusty-mustached, inappropriately tearful, and … what’s that? Pause it there. Is that dirt on Tarzan’s upper thigh, right below the tight elastic of his skivvie’s leghole? Or is it … no, it couldn’t be. That’s what the ocean is for, or a hole in the ground. right? More on this in a second.
The newly merged tribe, Tikiano, goes back to camp to find a nice cheese platter and some wine waiting for them. this season’s cast members aren’t starving quite as much as I’m used to seeing, and after 17 days I’m sort of ready for someone to cry because they miss spaghetti. Alicia is a little sour that Colton brought the idol back home with him, but she’s more chill without her bossypants dictator friend around to stoke her bitchfires. the next morning, Tarzan asks for coffee, which Jay refuses him on the basis of Tarzan being on the loser’s tribe when they won the coffee reward. Sort of selfish, but maybe the coffee was Salani’s magic potion that kept them winning? I don’t like to share coffee with losers either.
At the reward challenge — they played for beer, pizza (the isle of cheese!), and a secret note — the tribes are split into two teams again and four members of each team are sent scrambling through a sandy obstacle course to retrieve bags of puzzles for the remaining two members to assemble. the losing team (Jonas, Leif, Kim, Kat, Michael, and Tarzan) take a strategic gamble by sending Leif through first, and he loses a lot of ground by getting stuck going the wrong way through his limbo pole. this is awkward to watch: Jeff compares Leif to a turtle, and nobody likes to see trapped legs flailing from under a pole and some pounds of sand. the losers make up some ground only to fall behind again when Tarzan and Jonas fail to complete the puzzle quickly enough. (Tarzan’s leisurely banter with Jeff during puzzle time underlines and bolds the fact that he’s socially inept — after they lose, he goes, “Oh well.” Guess he filled up on brie the night before.)
The victors (Troyzan, Jay, Sabrina, Christina, Chelsea, and Alicia) open their secret note over label-free beer and slices (I think roasted vegetable, but don’t quote me). the note informs them that there’s still another immunity idol back at camp, and they decide to keep this information on the down low. in loserville, robustly bearded Michael tells Jonas that Tarzan hopes to keep the men’s alliance, and Jonas is unsettled because (a) Tarzan hadn’t told Jonas that yet, and probably still thinks his name is Jason, and (b) Michael was (briefly) a strong Salani member, and isn’t the most reliable confidante when handed the ailing Misfit Alliance’s plans.
When Jonas confronts Tarzan, Tarzan becomes defensive and nutty-eyed, quits the alliance, and wanders off to the beach to seethe like a gray-haired dictionary on fire. Troyzan, meanwhile, the Snow White of monkeys, wakes up early to hunt for the immunity idol, which he finds after some confusing expressionistic cuts (Troyzan’s hand going into a tree/an extreme close-up of a reptilian eye). Like people who wake up early always do, he smugs around for a bit about how lazy everyone else is for sleeping in until 5 a.m. Irritating, but I suppose you do find idols and deals on eggs at that hour.
At the immunity challenge — with a brand-new Etsy necklace featuring a skull and feathers for the individual lucky enough to risk avian flu by wearing it at stake — the castaways perch on wee platforms while balancing balls on a lipless tray. By the fourth shot of Troyzan’s five-finger barefoot-technology shoes, it is clear that he will win and that Vibram’s stock is going up. Kat, however, comes in a close second by taking the pose of a waitress holding two dozen overflowing cosmopolitans — is she experienced? Troyzan leaves with the immunity idol, in addition to the one he found when you were sleeping, you asshole. during the scramble back at camp, Jay brings up Jonas’s name, even though he can caramelize coconut and make it taste like hash browns, citing the fact that he’s a threat. after hearing that he might be on the block, Jonas apologizes to Tarzan and Troyzan for the earlier scuffle, bringing Old Man Willoughby the plastic surgeon to tears. He only cries like that over truly beautiful breast implants. the alliance is patched and a plan to vote off Kat is floated around, though they don’t have the numbers to pull it off.
Now we visit with Chelsea, who I keep forgetting exists at all. She’s often pictured with Jay, drawling under the foliage, but here she is scrubbing her clothes lustily in the ocean, preparing them for a dip in some boiling water. She’s being really thorough, as one does, and when she starts boiling up her wardrobe a big, lumbering beast in the form of Tarzan comes barreling over with a heavy-looking pair of manties. Sabrina notices that the concentration of dirt on said manties resembles — Tarzan’s words — “poop pants,” and that she can’t even look at them. Plop! Into the pot they go, right on top of Chelsea’s sandblasted delicates. Chelsea hurries to lift the shape of Tarzan’s shame out of the pot (IS THAT WHERE THEY CARAMELIZE THE COCONUT? OH GOD … ), but Tarzan tosses them right back in, and the lady doth protest too much: You’re okay, it’s not poop, it’s dirt! I swear to God! Boiling water kills the microbes! if they were poop pants, which they weren’t! but if they were, it doesn’t matter, the germs are dead and nothing else is disgusting about poo shut up! He digs himself an eight-foot grave of poop-pants justifications, and now nobody will let their clothes hang out in the suds tub with Tarzan’s. because obviously.
Chelsea, moments later, is hit by a lightning bolt of brilliance: Hey, maybe instead of voting off the guy who’s a pretty good time and can cook, we vote off the guy who can’t remember our names and makes us feel dirty all over? Like all good ideas, however, nobody wrote this one down, and perhaps it was uncomfortably close to tribal council to switch things up. at tribal, Jonas pulls a bold (but miscalculated) move when he brings up Michael’s name as a more attractive alternative to his own: Michael is stronger, after all (though not in the last challenge, corrects Michael, who was non-proficient in balls). if Jonas had made a case for voting off Tarzan — perhaps risking his patched alliance with the fella, but with the advantage of being able to bring continence into the equation — I think he could have pulled it off. Tarzan is incensed that Jonas has shown his hand, claiming that he threw Michael “over the bus.” Jonas, probably feeling that he had little to lose, opines that they didn’t have enough votes to eliminate Kat; Kat goes “huh?” and an argument ensues. Save it for the credit vote montage, amateurs!
Tarzan tells everybody that he’s now voting for Jonas, and so it is: the fool in the storm has become the new emperor with no clothes, which sucks especially if you’re in a storm and you have no clothes because you went in them. Jonas, emotional and strangely giddy, goes back to caramelizing coconut somewhere more sanitary. now the women have a numbers advantage, unless Christina the victim decides to take control of the game and appeal to the men.
As for Tarzan, what has repelled most of us has charmed Jeff: “Tarzan is so honest. That’s what makes him so compelling to me — he means everything he says … in the moment. Like now.” It’s true that Tarzan is fascinating: bullheaded, seemingly clever and proficient in some areas (he diagnosed Colton’s appendicitis!) but totally dumb-witted in others (Chelsea was stirred to excuse herself to vomit after the laundry incident). He reminds me of Cochran: They’re both the kind of person who probably frequently thought, and even perhaps was told by other people, that he’d be really good at Survivor — that his encyclopedic knowledge of microbes or past seasons would offer him some kind of advantage. What’s interesting about the show is that it totally strips each individual of context (and nobody is necessarily who they say they are — just look at Russell Hantz) and exposes physical, social, and mental weaknesses in people who never knew they had any. Tarzan mentions that, in his bubble back on Dr. Tarzan’s Fantastic Planet, he manages quite well, but admits that he’s struggled to be likable or charming on the island; Colton, on the other hand, was made of social Teflon but had a wonky organ. There’s a randomness to what each season does to the castaways: the weather, the athleticism of wild chickens, the offhand remark overheard by an enemy. it is nearly impossible to predict the outcome of Survivor, at least most of the time, right up until the very end. there is no American Idol’s Jessica Sanchez — the best players are eliminated because they’re threats, the most strategically manipulative people defeated by a jury of their pissed-off peers, and sometimes it’s just a windy day and you draw the worst position for a challenge involving balancing feathers on your nose. at this point, Tarzan could become a walking pile of unintelligible dung and still stand a fighting chance of making it to the massage-on-a-yacht reward. they usually have a laundry service for that one. somebody should warn the yacht captain.
Next week: a tremendously vague teaser. Kim wonders about how it’s all “going to go down.” I think that’s what the teaser is supposed to give us clues about. all I’m doing is counting down the days until Troyzan wakes up early and makes friends with some mischievous capuchins who steal his buff. Watch it one more time. It’s like injecting painkillers into your eyeballs.
This is a real headline on CBS: “Plastic surgery takes years off appearance, study finds.” the study, published in the Archives of Plastic Surgery, tested age perception of various control groups—each with one type of surgery or another—and confirms that the perceived age was 7.2 years younger than actual age on average. the study authors think this information will help doctors provide realistic expectations for patients; I think the study sounds like a school report masquerading as proof that we should all go get botoxed.
The study authors basically took photos of 60 patients, all between 45 and 72 years old, and all of whom had had some kind of plastic surgery. Some had face and neck lifts, another group had face and neck lifts plus eyelid work, and another had eyelid work and face, neck and forehead lifts. Volunteer medical school students guessed their ages by the photographs; they guessed 5.7 years younger than the actual age for the first group, 7.5 years for the second, and 8.9 years for the third.
CBS asked Dr. Michael Olding, director of the division of plastic surgery at George Washington University, what he thought about the study. he said it “points to the obvious” when it comes to multiple procedures:
Doing a number of small things makes a tremendous difference when combined, rather than making a tremendous difference in one area.
The more the merrier, or in this case, the more the younger.
First, let’s just say that “the more the merrier” is not a phrase I’d associate with plastic surgery (hasn’t anyone seen Lisa Rinna, or heard her talk about how she wishes she hadn’t gotten so much done to her face?). second, what the study (and article), cleverly omits is that no one’s accounting for how long these procedures last, and how patients feel about the way they look. getting lots of procedures done over time may help you look young when you’re just three-deep, but when, eight years later, you feel your face and brow lift has started to lose its luster, there seems to be a slippery slope between trying to take off five years and starting to look like Joan Rivers.
(CBS) Can plastic surgery turn back the clock? According to a new study, it can make patients look up to nine years younger than their chronological age.
The study, published Feb. 20 in the Archives of Plastic Surgery, aimed to put a number on the years that could be “restored” through surgery.
For the study, researchers at the University of Toronto studied 60 patients, between 45 and 72 years of age, who had undergone cosmetic facial surgeries. the patients were divided into three groups: the first had face and neck lifts; the second had face and neck lifts and eyelid work; the third had eyelid work and face, neck, and forehead lifts. forty volunteer medical school students then guessed patients’ ages based on photographs.
Results showed that prior to surgery, patients’ ages were estimated to be an average of 1.7 years younger than their actual age. after plastic surgery, that number shifted to 8.9 years younger.
Changes in perceived age differed among the groups. the average perceived change in the first group was 5.7 years, 7.5 years in the second, and 8.5 years in the third – 7.2 years on average.
Researchers said the volunteers who rated the photographs did not differ significantly between each other in their estimates – although some consistently rated patients older and others younger.
“Our findings offer some objective sense as to our success with surgical intervention as facial plastic surgeons and provide us with more evidence to give patients when formulating their preoperative expectations,” study authors commented.
Dr. Michael Olding, director of the division of plastic surgeon at George Washington University, told HealthDay the research “points to the obvious” when it comes to multiple procedures – “The more the merrier, or in this case, the more the younger.” Olding said “doing a number of small things makes a tremendous difference when combined, rather than making a tremendous difference in one area.”
Aesthetic plastic surgeries “may not fall under the realm of medically necessary procedures,” study authors said, but “there stems an innate desire to be as young and attractive as possible.” According to the authors, physical appearance and how we are perceived by others have implications for one’s sense of well-being, self-esteem and self-confidence, as well as social and psychological functioning.
Pauline Hull, who runs a website about elective C-sections, poses with her children in Farnham, England, in this photo dated Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011.
(Credit:AP)
(CBS/AP) are free C-sections a good thing? Lots of British folks are asking, now that a new rule change may soon allow women to get a cesarean on the government’s dime.
Currently the National Health Service covers the cost of C-sections if there are health concerns for mom or baby. the new rules would require the NHS to pay for the procedure also for pregnant women “with no identifiable reason” for a cesarean, after talking it over with mental health experts.
The rule change has some in England saying paying for C-sections is simply indulging women who are “too posh to push.”
“The idea of rendering the life-saving caesarean a ‘lifestyle choice’ … seems to smack of yet one more form of cosmetic surgery,” Louise Foxcroft, a medical historian, wrote in The Guardian. “It is then, at the very least, the height of absurd vanity and, at most, an example of the ever-present gynophobia that permeates our society.”
Other women applaud the new rules.
“It’s about time women who have no desire to view labor as a rite of passage into motherhood be able to choose how they want to have their baby,” said Pauline Hull, site operator of Elective Cesarean, who has had two children by cesarean because of medical reasons. “The important thing to me was meeting my baby, not the experience of labor.” Hull said midwives often overexaggerate C-section risks and underestimate those of vaginal births.
The organization behind the new rules, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, said it routinely updates guidance every few years and denied there was pressure to change its more restrictive C-section advice. but in recent years, advocates and some doctors have slammed the U.K. health system for not giving women a greater say in childbirth.
Twenty-five percent of women have C-sections in the U.K., versus about 30 percent in the U.S. in both countries, rates have doubled in recent years, though doctors say that’s also due to health problems more pregnant women are facing like obesity and diabetes.
The World Health Organization has previously said wealthy countries should aim for a C-section rate of about 15 percent, though it also says there isn’t enough evidence to know what the ideal rate is.
Some experts said there’s no substitute for the natural way.
“As long as it’s safe for both mother and baby, a vaginal birth is absolutely the best way for anyone to deliver,” said obstetrician Dr. Daghni Rajasingham, spokeswoman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She said the physical stress put on a baby’s lungs during labor helps them adapt to breathing after being born.
What do U.S. experts have to say about C-sections?
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said in its most recent statement on the subject ,”ACOG continues to review all of the issues surrounding maternal-request cesarean, but at this time our position is that cesareans should be performed for medical reasons, “Dr. Stanley Zinberg, ACOG deputy executive vice president, said.
Zinberg said high-risk groups including women carrying multiple fetuses conceived through fertility treatments, older women becoming pregnant, and overweight and obese women, are high-risk for cesareans. Women who still want a C-section, he said, should be counseled on potential risks including a higher risk of infection, scar tissue, blood clots, complications from anesthesia, and the potential need for future cesareans, which entail additional risk.
in July of 2010, ACOG also updated its guidelines in attempt to to curb rising C-section rates, suggesting more women should opt for a vaginal birth, including most women who have had previous c-sections and those carrying twins, CBS News reported.
What do you think of C-sections for non-medical reasons?
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I ran the scenario that Sharon Osbourne described past Dr. Eugene Elliott, a cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon at Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in Fountain Valley. he said, in part:
“The two most common long term complications related to breast implants which could lead to necessity for removal are rupture/leakage and severe encapsulation. Rupture or leakage can occur spontaneously (loss of outer shell integrity) or following severe compression trauma to the breast.
“If a saline implant ruptures and leaks it is obvious with visible change in size and feel of the breast, but if a silicone implant leaks it usually is symptom free and the breast does not change in shape. Sometimes, [as] was indicated for mrs. Osbourne, the implant shape can change, becoming more elongated or irregular in shape.”
“If a silicone implant ruptures, usually the silicone remains intracapsular, that is, within the normal scar tissue formed around every implant. If however a rupture is very traumatic or it is of long duration the silicone material can migrate extra capsular that is beyond the breast.
“When mrs. Osbourne referred to her silicone leaking around her stomach what she was likely referring to was an extra capsular leak with some migration below the breast onto the abdominal wall, not internally around the stomach.”
Elliott said he’s found over the years that most patients who have implants removed for whatever the reason decide to undergo another augmentation procedure.
Osbourne has had she spent more than $180,000 in plastic surgery in her lifetime, including bariatric surgery, plastic surgery to remove excess skin, and reportedly a face lift, brow lift, liposuction on her neck and arms, and a tummy tuck. There have been stories about a breast reduction, a breast lift, and a pair of large implants that she later replaced with more modest ones – all before the recent mishap.
A couple of years ago, she said she’d have her implants removed and would give one to her husband to use as a paperweight.
If she does get additional plastic surgery, you can bet she won’t shy away from telling us about it. probably on “The Talk.”
In the meantime, we can check out the set for any odd-looking paperweights.
<a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/osbourne-321516-sharon-missing.htmltag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/osbourne-321516-sharon-missing.htmlWed, 12 Oct 2011 13:20:36 GMT”>A doctor on Sharon Osbourne’s breast mishap
A bad case of plastic surgery can cause facial deformities. in the case of one woman living in New Jersey, a recent plastic surgery operation has affected her ability to close her eyes.
Marilyn Leisz of New Jersey is suing plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Parker for negligence for his “eyes-stuck-wide-open” surgery. Speaking to CBS, the woman bemoaned her inability to do any of the things she loves doing, like tennis, racquetball, swimming, horseback riding, gardening and getting around like a normal human being.
The woman went to see the doctor to perform an operation on her eyelids, correct bumps on the surface of her skin. She claims she wasn’t warned of the risks by the negligent doctor and another doctor later told her that she wouldn’t have been a good candidate for the surgery because she had other procedures done on her that would’ve impacted the outcome—a fact now evident in her inability to close her eyes.
Because she can’t close or blink her eyes, she has to use gel at night and a vaporizer so she doesn’t scratch her eyes. She is also losing her eyesight.
Cop-show fans can return to The Streets of San Francisco today, as CBS Home Entertainment releases Season 3, Volumes 1 and 2 on DVD.
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A bad case of plastic surgery can cause facial deformities. in the case of one woman living in New Jersey, a recent plastic surgery operation has affected her ability to close her eyes.