15% ofpatients' seeking plastic surgery in UAE are teens and students: Consultancy

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January 27, 2014

Plastic_surgeryAbu Dhabi, Jan 27: The growing interest demonstrated by university aged students and teenagers for plastic surgery is being cited as one of the key factors that will help spark continuous growth for the UAE's plastic surgery segment.

According to a media statement issued by Vasilica Aesthetics, a plastic surgery consultancy firm, “recent industry reports have shown that more and more individuals in the country today are pressured to look good, which has spiked the demand for cosmetic surgery and other related medical procedures.”

According to the media statement, “Of the lot, 15 per cent of patients seeking to undergo plastic surgery in 2013 were composed of teenagers and university-aged students.”

Vasilica Aesthetics, which is seeking to play a guiding role for young people wanting to undergo plastic surgery, strongly advises that potential patients, particularly younger ones, should first seek professional advice from medical experts and consultants before undergoing a cosmetic procedure.

The form further shared that university students are simply emulating what today's celebrities are doing but explained that younger patients should be made aware of the procedure they wish to undertake and the risks involved with it.

The increased demand for plastic surgeries has attracted the attention of specialists from all over the world – who have now set up extensions of their practices in Dubai, which allows them to meet potential patients and perform cosmetic procedures here as well.

According to these specialists, some of the most common procedures opted by younger patients include liposuction, breast augmentation, ear correction, body lift , rhinoplasty and acid hyaluronic fillers like Juvaderm, Radiesse and Restyline.

Industry analysts have cited two main reasons as to why today's younger generation are turning to plastic surgery – the first is peer pressure, where friends and social acquaintances play large influence to the need to look good and second, the advances in medicine that have now made aesthetic procedures possible and affordable. Also, today's plastic surgery procedures have also become less invasive and safer.

“The growing interest for cosmetic surgery has given us the confidence to see more growth in this medical segment – probably reaching 5 to 10 per cent growth in 2014,” said Vasilica Roxana Baltateanu, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Vasilica Aesthetics.

“The growth of this segment consolidates the Middle East region's move to become a medical tourism destination. The UAE in particular is now focused on developing its healthcare segment and has already started on building specialized healthcare cities and other major hospital projects that will attract more medical tourists.”

Amidst these developments, Vasilica Aesthetics has shared that interested patients still need to be guided on the basics of undergoing a cosmetic procedure. According to Baltateanu, many of these patients search the internet to check on corrective surgeries that they can avail of, while some even consult with three to five different specialists – ending with tons of information that will sound too confusing for them.

“Plastic surgery is not a medical condition—it is elective. It is a procedure that will not only affect your body but will also have an impact on your life, can have psychological effects. For those who are really decided on undergoing plastic surgery, younger ones in particular, we would also recommend counselling in order to be well aware of the benefits and the risks involved,” concluded Baltateanu.

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June 26,2020

Facebook will introduce a new notification screen on its platform that will warn users if the article they are about to share is over 90 days old, the company announced on Thursday.

“We’re starting to globally roll out a notification screen that will let people know when news articles they are about to share are more than 90 days old,” Facebook wrote in a blog post.

The social media platform had previously introduced a context button in 2018 that provides information about the sources of articles in the News Feed. Building upon that, the new feature will inform users about the timeliness of the article.

“To ensure people have the context they need to make informed decisions about what to share on Facebook, the notification screen will appear when people click the share button on articles older than 90 days, but will allow people to continue sharing if they decide an article is still relevant,” Facebook said.

The social media giant stated that timeliness is important in understanding the context of an article and curbing the spread of misinformation on the platform.

“News publishers, in particular, have expressed concerns about older stories being shared on social media as current news, which can misconstrue the state of current events. Some news publishers have already taken steps to address this on their own websites by prominently labelling older articles to prevent outdated news from being used in misleading ways,” Facebook added.

Apart from this, the platform will also be testing a similar notification screen for information related to the global Covid-19 pandemic. The notification screen will provide information about the source of the link shared in a post if the link is related to information on Covid-19. It will also direct people to its previously introduced Covid-19 information centre for “authoritative” health information, it said.

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June 10,2020

US dictionary Merriam-Webster will update the meaning of the word "racism" after being contacted by a Missouri black woman, who claimed the current definition fell short of including the systematic oppression of people of colour, according to media reports.

"A revision to the entry for racism is now being drafted to be added to the dictionary soon, and we are also planning to revise the entries of other words that are related to racism or have racial connotations," according to a statement of the 189-year-old dictionary shared by Kennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in Iowa, on her Facebook.

Mitchum, 22, emailed the dictionary last month, following the death of African American George Floyd in the custody of four Minneapolis police officers, Xinhua news agency reported.

"I kept having to tell them that definition is not representative of what is actually happening in the world," Mitchum told CNN. "The way that racism occurs in real life is not just prejudice, it's the systemic racism that is happening for a lot of black Americans."

Merriam-Webster's first definition of racism is "a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race."

"It's not just disliking someone because of their race," Mitchum wrote in a Facebook post on Friday. "This current fight we are in is evidence of that, lives are at stake because of the systems of oppression that go hand-in-hand with racism."

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January 4,2020

Washington D.C: One of the greatest spectacles of modern art is still thriving in the Australian outback as confirmed by satellite imagery of NASA. The Marree Man is a massive geoglyph depicting an aboriginal hunter, that spans over 2.6 miles in the Southern Australian region.

Discovered by a pilot in 1998, its origin still remains a mystery even to this date.

The Marree Man was given a new lease of life in 2016 when a group of people from the neighboring town of Marree plowed its lines to avert its fading due to erosion.

After NASA shared the image of the art-work that was taken in June, the efforts of the good samaritans turned out to be a total success, reported CNN Travel.

The restoration team believes that the refurbished Marree Man would last longer than its original version.

According to NASA, "They [the team] created wind grooves, designed to trap water and encourage the growth of vegetation. They hope that eventually, the man will turn green."

In a previous article, CNN reported that an entrepreneur by the name of Dick Smith took upon himself to unravel the geoglyph's mystery in 2016. His team combed through all the available evidence but couldn't find anything conclusive.

In 2018 he even offered a 5,000 Australian dollar reward for anyone who knows the identity of its creator.

Nobody turned up with an answer but it was speculated that unknown artist lives in Alice Springs or even might be an American.

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