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Wenatchee, WA () September 6, 2007 -- The Internet has become a primary source of health information, with more and more people going online to self-diagnose themselves and research medical conditions. eHealthInfoLine.com (http://www.ehealthinfoline.com/plastic_surgery.html).
"Who hasn't used the Internet to research medical conditions" asks Kevin Lu, the associate publisher of eHealthInfoLine.com. "I have two kids, and every time they get sick or a rash I go
online trying to self-diagnose their illness. What does strep throat look like How do I treat a fever We launched eHealthInfoLine.com to help people get answers to these types of
questions."
Fat loss and plastic surgery have been hot topics in the news for years, but the spotlight has grown even brighter now thanks to television shows such as Dr. 90210 on E! and Big Medicine
on Discovery Health.
"It was important for eHealthInfoLine.com to include information pertaining to diet, exercise, and popular plastic surgery procedures people see on television or read about in the news,"
says Lu. "Because many TV shows are only 30-minutes long, they don't adequately educate viewers about the procedures shown." Similarly, popular glamour and health magazines don't have
editorial space to report both the good and the bad in diet news, plastic surgery, and weight loss fads.
Each topical health section of eHealthInfoline.com includes space for breaking health care and medical news that may not have received adequate airtime on TV or headlines in enough
newspapers. For instance, a weight loss procedure known as lipodissolve (http://www.lipotreatmentfacts.org/phosphatidylcholine.php) and sodium deoxycholate (PC/DC), and is consistent with
the FDA's statement that PC/DC is a new drug requiring new drug approval. The ban in Kansas, follows the lead of Brazil, Canada and the UK, three countries that banned lipodissolve
treatments (http://www.lipotreatmentfacts.org/keyquestions.php), and who claim to have benefited from them, to question whether
or not the ban was unnecessary. Critics of the ban argue that complaints from individuals who received the procedure from unlicensed or unskilled professionals are behind the ban of
lipodissolve (www.ehealthinfoline.com