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Naomi Campbell suffered a leg injury when she was violently attacked and robbed on a Paris street, multiple sources exclusively tell Page Six.

The supermodel was set upon by thugs as she tried to hail a cab and was “knocked over and robbed,” we’re told. She suffered a torn ligament, and reported the incident to French cops.

One source said, “It was terrifying. Naomi believes the assailant had been watching her, casing her out, and waited for a moment to strike when she was alone. She was attacked in the street as she hailed a cab, and robbed.

“Her leg was injured as she was violently pushed to the ground. She was understandably very upset and shaken up,” the source said. It is not known what the thugs stole from her, but it’s believed they were targeting expensive jewelry she may have been wearing.

The beauty’s billionaire boyfriend, Vladimir Doronin, immediately flew her by private jet to Vail, Colo., where she was treated by J. Richard Steadman, one of the top orthopedic surgeons in the world and the founder of the Steadman Clinic, which has treated many athletes, including Alex Rodriguez.

Naomi, 42, has been using a wheelchair and crutches to get around following the attack, which happened over a month ago.

Our source added she has not spoken publicly about the assault nor told friends, at the request of French police who are hunting down the thugs.

We are also told Doronin has upped security around Naomi, as a precaution.

The model’s spokesman and agent declined to comment. When reached by phone, the Naomi said, “I am sorry, I do not talk to press, but I am fine.”

Naomi has remained positive since the attack. She has been tweeting inspiring messages and threw a New Year’s Eve bash at her house on Miami’s Star Island. She’s now resting in Miami and preparing for next month’s launch of her TV show “The Face.”
 

Istanbul’s health and beauty industry is becoming ‘hairier’ as facial hair transplants rise in popularity amongst follicle-challenged men, the Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday.

For many men, the measure of status, strength and manliness is a thick moustache. Cosmetic surgeons in Turkey have responded accordingly as Istanbul reaps the benefits of ‘beauty’ tourism.

Tulunay, a Turkish doctor, said that over ten of his 60 monthly patients now request facial hair transplants.

The doctor describes the societal preference for increased facial hair in the region.

“Both in Turkey and in Arab countries facial hair is associated with masculinity, and its lack can cause social difficulties. In Turkish there is a word for it: köse – baldness of the face – and it is usually not considered a good thing”, Tulunay said.

A mainstay in the ‘hairy’ business for the more than ten years, Ali Mezdegi, a doctor, said: “Thick hair is a status symbol and a sign of strength and virility.”
He added that Arabs make up 75 percent of his clients.

A Turkish tourism agency specializes in hair implant tour packages that costs approximately $2,300 for the four day long procedure and treatment, which also covers medical and overnight expenses.

Mezdegi explained that over 50 percent of his patients were channeled either through such a tourism agency or via word of mouth.

The agency’s general manager, Irfan Atik, said that most of his clients are from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait and Iraq. Atik notes that, in the West, clean shaven males are more prominent and fashionable as compared to the Middle East.
 

Crystal Harris has shared her excitement ahead of her New Year's Eve wedding to Hugh Hefner.

The model, 26, took to Twitter account on Monday morning just hours ahead of her nuptials at the Playboy mansion.

She wrote: 'Today is the day I become Mrs. Hugh Hefner. Feeling very happy, lucky, and blessed.'

She has already changed her name on the social networking site to Crystal Hefner.

The blonde was dubbed a 'runaway bride' by the 86-year-old mogul after she called off their engagement just days before their wedding in June 2011.

After their split, she revealed she had only been intimate with him once - and very briefly.

She admitted sex with the octogenarian lasted 'like two seconds', adding: 'Then I was just over it. I was like, 'Ahhh.' I was over it.

'I just like, walked away. I'm not turned on by Hef, sorry.'

She continued: 'He doesn't really take off his clothes. I've never seen Hef naked.'

Despite her comments, the pair reconciled in May this year and will marry in a lavish Los Angeles ceremony.

Crystal celebrated her upcoming nuptials with a Disney themed bridal shower on December 19.

Her best friend Ashley Matthau threw her a bachelorette party at lingerie store Femme Fatale in Studio City, California.

She told Us Weekly magazine: 'We really love Disney. We are huge fans. We go to Disneyland together a lot. My favourite movie is The Little Mermaid, so she got me an Ariel-themed cake. I was deciding what kind of shower I wanted, and I thought I didn't really want a lingerie shower, since I have more than enough lingerie.'
 

Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin competes during the 2012 Miss USA Presentation Show in Las Vegas. A judge believes her disappointment at missing the top 15 motivated her to call the pageant rigged.

How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? For former Miss Pennsylvania, it might begin to feel $5 million lighter.
Sheena Monnin, 27, was flabbergasted when she was ordered Tuesday to pay billionaire Donald Trump’s company $5 million for accusing the Miss Universe Organization, which also runs Miss USA, of rigging competitions.
 
“I was shocked that was ruled against me, frankly,” the Pennsylvanian beauty told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Saturday. “The most logical course of action is to fight (the ruling).”
 
Monnin posted her initial response to the ruling Thursday on her official Facebook support page.
 
“When I stated my opinion that the Miss USA pageant was rigged,” she wrote, “I was not aware of the clause in the Miss USA contract which says that the Miss Universe Organization, Donald Trump, and others have the legal right to choose the top five and the winner.”

The executive vice president of the Trump Organization said Donald Trump and other officials have never influenced pageant results, calling the clause allowing such behavior "protection for the organization and its owners." Monnin said she plans to fight the ruling against her.

Her father, Philip Monnin, recently showed her the clause in a contract she signed that reserves the right for the top five pageant officials to select the top five finalists.
 
But Trump’s right-hand man, Michael Cohen, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said that power has not been used. Furthermore, he accused Monnin of blatantly disregarding the truth.

“It‘s protection for the Miss Universe pageant and its owners,” Cohen responded Saturday. “It has never been used. The judge‘s decisions have never been overruled by Mr. Trump, NBC or the Miss Universe Organization.”
 
Cohen added that the judges chose Olivia Culpo of Rhode Island on without any outside interference.

A judge ruled that Sheena Monnin's statements cost the Miss Universe Organization up to $5 million in sponsorship for 2013.
Monnin, on the other hand, said that the clause’s existence corroborates her accusations.
 
“By their own words,” she said, “the Miss Universe Organization’s contract proves the plausibility of my statements.”

Former U.S. District Court Magistrate Theodore H. Katz – who thinks Monnin was frustrated that she did not place in the top 15 – said that her allegations cost the pageant up to $5 million in sponsorship money for 2013.
 
Monnin resigned from the pageant in June. She wrote on Facebook that another contestant “saw the list of the Top 5 BEFORE THE SHOW EVER STARTED.”
 

Pop guru Simon Cowell carries pocket-sized inhalable oxygen shots, America's "Mad Men" actress January Jones favors dried placenta pills, and British soap star Patsy Palmer rubs coffee granules into her skin.

Celebrities rarely shy away from public peddling of dubious ideas about health and science, and 2012 was no exception.

In its annual list of the year's worst abuses against science, the Sense About Science (SAS) campaign also named former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney for spreading misinformation about windows on planes, and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps for false justifications for peeing in the pool.

To help set the record straight, SAS, a charity dedicated to helping people make sense of science and evidence, invited qualified scientists to respond to some of the wilder pseudo-scientific claims put about by the rich and famous.

It suggested Romney, who wondered aloud in September why aircraft crews don't just open the windows when there's a fire on board, should listen to aeronautical engineer Jakob Whitfield:

"Unfortunately, Mitt, opening a window at height wouldn't do much good," the scientist said. "In fact, if you could open a window whilst in flight, the air would rush out...because air moves from the high pressure cabin to the lower pressure outside, probably causing further injury and damage."

January Jones's dried placenta pills, which the actress admitted in March she consumed after giving birth, win no favor with Catherine Collins, principal dietician at St George's Hospital in London.

"Nutritionally, there's nothing to be gained from eating your placenta - raw, cooked, or dried," Collins said. "Apart from iron, which can be easily found in other dietary choices or supplements, your placenta will provide toxins and other unsavory substances it had successfully prevented from reaching your baby in utero."

Gary Moss, a pharmaceutical scientist, patiently points out to Palmer that while caffeine may have an effect on cellulite, rubbing coffee granules into the skin is unlikely to work, since the caffeine can't escape the granules to penetrate the skin.

Phelps's claim that it's fine to pee in the pool because "chlorine kills it" is put straight by biochemist Stuart Jones, who reminds him that "urine is essentially sterile so there isn't actually anything to kill in the first place".

And for Cowell, Kay Mitchell a scientist at the Centre for Altitude Space and Extreme Environment Medicine warns that very high levels of oxygen can in fact be toxic - particularly in the lungs, where oxygen levels are highest.

"Celebrity comments travel far and fast, so it's important that they talk sense," said Sense About Science's managing director Tracey Brown. "The implausible and frankly dangerous claims about how to avoid cancer, improve skin or lose weight are becoming ever more ridiculous. And unfortunately they have a much higher profile than the research and evidence."

To encourage more vigilance among celebrity pseudo-scientists in the future, SAS provided a checklist of "misleading science claims" it suggests should be avoided:

* "Immune boosting" - you can't and you don't need to

* "Detox" - your liver does this

* "Superfood" - there is no such thing, just foods that are high in some nutrients

* "Oxygenating" - your lungs do this

* "Cleansing" - you shouldn't be trying to cleanse anything other than your skin or hair.
 

The discovery that a protein which triggers milk production in women may also be responsible for making breast cancers aggressive could open up new opportunities for treatment of the most common and deadliest form of cancer among women.

Found in all breast cells, the protein ELF5 tries to activate milk production even in breast cancer cells, which does not work and then makes the cancer more aggressive, according to scientists in Australia and Britain.

"The discovery opens up new avenues for therapy and for designing new markers that can predict response to therapy," said lead author Professor Chris Ormandy from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney.

In 2008, Ormandy's work linked ELF5 to milk production.

The latest research by Ormandy and his team, published in the journal PLOS Biology on Friday, went a step further to find the link between ELF5 and breast cancer.

"Cancer cells can't respond properly (to ELF5), so they ... acquire some characteristics ... that make the disease more aggressive and more refractory (resistant) to treatment with existing therapies," Ormandy said by telephone.

Ormandy and his team grew human breast cancer tissues, genetically manipulated to contain high amounts of ELF5, in petri dishes and saw how the protein proliferated aggressively.

FINDINGS MAY HELP TARGETED THERAPY

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the top cause of cancer death among women, accounting for 23 percent of total cancer cases and 14 percent of cancer deaths in women.

To decide on treatment, doctors normally need to find out if the cancer has receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone, which, in the case of breast cancer patients, promote growth in their tumors.

Two-thirds of breast cancers are usually positive for estrogen receptors, which then require anti-hormonal therapies that lower estrogen levels in the patient or block estrogen from supporting the growth of the cancer.

For the remaining one-third of patients, their cancers do not have receptors, which means they won't benefit from hormonal therapies. Such patients are usually given other treatments, such as chemotherapy.

Ormandy's team found that cancers with these receptors had low levels of ELF5, while those without receptors had significantly higher levels of the protein.

"What we have shown in this paper is high ELF5 tumors are dependent on ELF5 for their proliferation and if we block ELF5 in high ELF5 tumors, we will block proliferation and that will treat the tumor," Ormandy said.

"If we can develop a drug that targets ELF5, it will be very useful for that group of women," he said.
 

Philadelphia is installing condom dispensers in 22 city high schools where students as young as 14 will be able to receive condoms for free in an effort to combat an "epidemic" of sexually transmitted disease among the city's teenagers.

Students returning to school from Christmas break will find clear plastic dispensers filled with condoms in the offices of nurses whose schools have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases.

"We believe distributing condoms is part of our obligation to keep students healthy and to remain healthy," said school district spokesman Fernando Gallard. "The health department has described this as a continued epidemic of STDs among teenagers in Philadelphia."

Condoms have in the past been provided to students in Philadelphia as part of wider program in which the teenagers are provided "free, voluntary and confidential" testing for sexual diseases in their schools, Gallard said.

It was the results of those tests that led officials to launch the current program to distribute condoms regularly in schools instead of once a year when the tests are administered.

Of the 130,000 student who have received testing in the last five years, some 6,500 or 5 percent of them have tested positive for diseases including HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Parents were made aware of the distribution program in October and were given the chance to opt their children out of receiving the prophylactics.

Gallard said the school district has not received "specific calls" from parents objecting to the program. The total number of parents who chose to disallow their children from receiving condoms, however, is unknown.

According to Advocates for Youth, a nonprofit organization that advocates for sexual health among young people, there are at least 418 schools nationwide providing condoms.

In August, despite outrage from some parents, the school board in Springfield, Mass., approved a plan to distribute condoms in public high schools, as well as middle schools, providing free contraception to students as young as 11.


(ABC News)