If you thought slugging, skin icing, or period masking was as bizarre as beauty trends got, think again: Placenta facials have entered the chat. Yep – actual placenta. On your face. And depending on ...

DEAR READERS: I received this release about a new frontier in veterinary treatment, and share it with you out of great interest: "A human placenta-derived compound developed by a University of Florida ...

TREND Beautifiers that use parts of human or animal placenta to rejuvenate skin are coming out of the closet HOW IT STARTED Cosmetic companies bought into the organ’s healing power decades ago, but ...

IN the course of an investigation of hormones of human placenta, we came across a substance which showed strong blood-coagulating properties. Freshwater extracts of placenta contain this factor. Their ...

It may indeed be odd to see placenta extract of “vegetable or animal” origin as an ingredient in a cosmetic product (Feedback, 2 October), but I was not altogether surprised by Richard Greenwood’s ...

From the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; the Department of Communicable Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health; and the Infants' and Children's Hospitals, Boston. This study was ...