Spa Finder Announces Top Spa Trends to Watch in 2006 Spas are a fountainhead for new ways to live well, where ideas in healing, beauty, fitness, diet and spirituality are allowed to evolve and cross-pollinate, resulting in innovations that have included aerobics, spa cuisine, the medical spa, home spa design, and detoxification programs.

Botox used to treat tennis elbow The wrinkle fighter Botox may serve up a new therapy for the chronic pain of "tennis elbow," a new study suggests. Researchers in Hong Kong found that among 60 adults with stubborn cases of tennis elbow, a single injection of botulinum toxin type A relieved some patients' pain for up to three months.

Philippines senator attempts to regulate cosmetic surgery Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago on Saturday denounced the practice of performing cosmetic surgery outside of hospitals by persons not licensed by the Professional Regulatory Commission. The bill also seeks to regulate minor cosmetic procedures that require only local anesthesia, like cosmetic tattooing, Botox injections and collagen injections.

Lunchtime nosejobs make news Not every nose needs an extreme makeover. And the growth of such 'lunchtime cosmetic treatments' as Botox and light chemical peels have changed the way many people now think about fixing these imperfections. The latest trend: quickie nose jobs. Restylane and Radiesse are leading the trend as the physician's choice.

Botox injections allow cerebral palsy sufferer to walk A disabled girl fulfilled her dream of being bridesmaid to her mum after Botox injections allowed her to walk. Cerebral palsy sufferer Kira Glossop, four, took her first steps when the jabs relaxed her contorted leg and foot muscles.

A whole village of Botox? Botox probably isn't the first image that comes to mind when you think "Dickensian Christmas village." But Dr. Michael Godin, facial plastic surgeon, has created a holiday village of about 30 buildings built entirely of recycled Botox bottles!

Cynosure stock up after IPO A company that makes lasers for hair removal and skin treatments was the focus of the initial public offering market on Friday, December 9, 2005. Cynosure Inc., a Westford, Mass.-based laser treatment company, was up 24 percent in afternoon trading.

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