As you might have noticed, I’ve implemented a minor redesign here at Fight Aging! and over at the Longevity Meme in the past couple of days. It’s a sort of spreading out in middle age: as the average size of monitors grows, an layout designed for 800×600 pixel screens begins to look cramped and low-rent. Now we’re on a layout that has 1024×768 in mind, and, by the magic of adding a lot of empty space, the same old material suddenly looks much more up to date and sophisticated. Funny the way that works.

A couple of other odds and ends were tided up as I notice them, and I hope to achieve more of the same in the next few days. The search function here at Fight Aging! now uses Google rather than the increasingly hopeless in-built Movable Type search, for example, and is as a result much more useful. I’ve moved it up in the left navigation to a position that reflects its newly acquired utility.

So while my attention is focused on these and similar housekeeping matters, it’s a good time for you, the audience, to point out things that might need updating or are otherwise not up to scratch. I’m hoping that nothing was outright broken by the update, but it’s always possible I missed an item stuck away in the corners, or that appearances are suffering in one of the less common browsers. Let me know if that’s the case.

As you might have noticed, I’ve implemented a minor redesign here at Fight Aging! and over at the Longevity Meme in the past couple of days. It’s a sort of spreading out in middle age: as the average size of monitors grows, an layout designed for 800×600 pixel screens begins to look cramped and low-rent. Now we’re on a layout that has 1024×768 in mind, and, by the magic of adding a lot of empty space, the same old material suddenly looks much more up to date and sophisticated. Funny the way that works.

A couple of other odds and ends were tided up as I notice them, and I hope to achieve more of the same in the next few days. The search function here at Fight Aging! now uses Google rather than the increasingly hopeless in-built Movable Type search, for example, and is as a result much more useful. I’ve moved it up in the left navigation to a position that reflects its newly acquired utility.

So while my attention is focused on these and similar housekeeping matters, it’s a good time for you, the audience, to point out things that might need updating or are otherwise not up to scratch. I’m hoping that nothing was outright broken by the update, but it’s always possible I missed an item stuck away in the corners, or that appearances are suffering in one of the less common browsers. Let me know if that’s the case.

As you might have noticed, I’ve implemented a minor redesign here at Fight Aging! and over at the Longevity Meme in the past couple of days. It’s a sort of spreading out in middle age: as the average size of monitors grows, an layout designed for 800×600 pixel screens begins to look cramped and low-rent. Now we’re on a layout that has 1024×768 in mind, and, by the magic of adding a lot of empty space, the same old material suddenly looks much more up to date and sophisticated. Funny the way that works.

A couple of other odds and ends were tided up as I notice them, and I hope to achieve more of the same in the next few days. The search function here at Fight Aging! now uses Google rather than the increasingly hopeless in-built Movable Type search, for example, and is as a result much more useful. I’ve moved it up in the left navigation to a position that reflects its newly acquired utility.

So while my attention is focused on these and similar housekeeping matters, it’s a good time for you, the audience, to point out things that might need updating or are otherwise not up to scratch. I’m hoping that nothing was outright broken by the update, but it’s always possible I missed an item stuck away in the corners, or that appearances are suffering in one of the less common browsers. Let me know if that’s the case.

Seen, Debra Messing looking celebrity ready at the Latisse Event Thursday in Hollywood. Latisse for those of you who don’t know is the newest eyelash sensation from Allergan. I have been using it now for almost two months and I am happy to report my lashes have never looked better.

Speaking of  looking better, hairstylist to the stars and owner of The Prive Salons, Laurent Dufourg knows a thing or two about giving his clients gorgeous hair. His list of celebs reads like a who’s who on page six of the New York Post. Stars like Teri Hatcher, Tea Leoni, Jewel, and Debra Messing have him on speed dial for his reliably silky strands that he gets using a densely packed round brush, and his Prive Finishing Texture Spray. This spray is amazing btw!

To get beautiful, silky locks, Laurent’s tip is to “brush with greatness”! To get sleek, shiny hair, and avoid breakage, you may need to dip into your piggy bank and invest in a good brush. A brush with all-natural bristles works best. The synthetic ones can melt with the heat of your blow dryer and irritate your scalp. If it gives me gorgeous locks I am definitely going for the all natural brush.

You can purchase the Prive Finishing Texture Spray, online for $20. A little goes along way so don’t over do it.

xx

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The dark pall once cast over postpartum depression is becoming a bright light.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve the Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act, which will help provide support services to women suffering from postpartum depression and psychosis.

It also will also help educate mothers and their families about these conditions. If passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Obama, the legislation will support research into the causes, diagnoses and treatments for postpartum depression and psychosis.

Blocker-Stokes was a Chicago native and pharmaceutical sales manager who, after the birth of her daughter, developed a psychosis that ultimately caused her to jump from a 12-story window ledge to her death on June 11, 2001.

The bill, if enacted, would require the secretary of Health and Human Services to expand and intensify research activities regarding postpartum depression and psychosis. The bill would also require additional support for basic and clinical research, epidemiological studies, diagnostic techniques and educational programs.