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Plastic surgery is a medical concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery, most plastic surgery is not cosmetic: plastic surgery includes many types of reconstructive surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment of burns.
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Whenever you consult a physician, you have the right to expect responsible, ethical care.
Yet some MDs are playing fast and loose with patient safety, taking shortcuts and pushing procedures and treatments that may endanger lives. Who's holding the knife? Debbie Daniels knew she wasn't in the greatest shape. At 39, she still carried extra pounds from being pregnant. She worked full-time as a respiratory therapist in a Paducah, Ky., hospital, and no longer had time for the softball games that had once kept her active. But it never occurred to Daniels that cosmetic surgery might be the solution—at least, not until her OB/GYN offered to make some cosmetic tweaks at the same time as a scheduled hysterectomy. "He said, 'We're going to be opening you up anyway, and we can do a little tummy tuck while we're there,' " Daniels recalls. "It sounded so simple." The doctor had delivered Daniels's last baby, and she knew him from the hospital where they both worked. "I thought he was a compassionat...Devotees of Botox and other forms of cosmetic surgery are turning to so-called power massages to bring their frozen faces back to life, according to reports Sunday.M...
Mary Lou Ray decided at age 65 that she had seen enough of the person in her mirror."My life led up to this. I had been divorced for 13 years, my children were grown...
An experimental supplement derived from soy may help postmenopausal women smooth their "crow's feet" a bit, a small pilot study suggests.The supplement, known for no...
Certain areas of the United States , including the Midwest and Mountain regions, have an especially hard time holding on to dermatologists, according to a new study....
If you don’t like your nose, you can change it. If you’ve lost a great deal of weight and you’re left with excess skin, you can be rid of it. If parts of your body l...
Working in sales means dealing face-to-face with clients. So when Larry Webb looked in the mirror and noticed he looked "gaunt" due to aging, he began to feel inhibi...
A new superbug could spread around the world after reaching Britain from India - in part because of medical tourism - and scientists say there are almost no drugs to...
More than 1.6 million Americans went under the knife for beauty in 2010, receiving breast implants, liposuction or facelifts, sending the rate of cosmetic surgeries ...
Breast augmentations are on the rise in Britain — despite the recession.A record 9,430 women opted for the operation last year — a ten percent uplift from 2009. But ...
Almost one-third of young women would trade at least a year of their lives to have a perfect body, according to a new survey of British undergraduates.The survey fou...
The Oxford English dictionary has just been updated with about 900 new words including one that is defined as "a protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight...
U.S. soldiers are going to extremes — taking diet pills and laxatives, even starving themselves and getting liposuction — in order to meet the military's weight stan...
The death of a Las Vegas woman who died after receiving a buttocks enhancement injection in a makeshift medical office was accidental, according to an autopsy.Clark ...
What if you knew, even before your child was born, that she wouldn't look like everyone else?Clara Beatty's parents knew.They were living in Belgium at the time, a d...
You were so careful all summer with the sunscreen. You applied it head to toe before you left the house to go to the beach, or pool, or club, or to lie out in the su...
Cosmetic surgery to make the chin look more prominent has soared in popularity in the course of a year, making it the fastest growing trend among men and women, US p...
British cosmetic surgery experts warned women on Tuesday against “designer dimple” surgery to look like pop star Cheryl Cole after a surge in requests for the contro...
How far will some women go to fit into high heels? The menu of services at Beverly Hills Aesthetic Foot Surgery in Studio City, Calif., provides a clue.There's the t...
A Texas hairstylist was arrested Thursday on suspicion of giving women dangerous and illegal breast implants in a back room of her salon.Police said Carmel Foster wa...
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