Surgery News

If you're considering Botox to erase frown lines or liposuction to get rid of love handles, you might want to move fast.

The second of the Bangladeshi conjoined twins that Australian surgeons separated this week is being brought out of an induced coma.

Dr. Jeremy Benedetti discusses the benefits of combining breast surgery procedures, such as breast augmentation and breast lift, to achieve a complete breast enhancement makeover in Tampa, Florida.

Obese patients are no more likely to have post-operative complications than those of average weight when undergoing robotic surgery to remove uterine fibroids, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital.

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They call it the "Botax." The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they search for ways to pay for costly health care overhaul plans.

Aspirin alone proved as effective as aspirin plus the blood clot preventer Plavix in keeping coronary artery bypass grafts open during the first year after surgery, according to a study released on Monday.

The onset of puberty can be an agonising time for many adolescents. This is the time when a strong emphasis is placed on looks and many teenagers look for peer validation.

Both Bangladeshi twins whose conjoined heads and brains were separated this week are expected to make a full recovery, Australian doctors said on Thursday.

Breast cancer survivor Jeni Lloyd was "quite astounded" by the news earlier this week that a powerful national health panel has recommended a significant reduction in the use of mammography to detect breast cancer in women.

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, how can I look like the fairest starlet of them all?" Apparently that's the question many Americans ask themselves prior to waltzing into their local plastic surgeon 's office.

About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few keystrokes of information about how the patient was doing.

Bangladeshi conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna are showing no signs of brain damage after their 27-hour head separation.

Thank you. Conjoined twins separated Surgeons at the Royal Children's Hospital successfully separated conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna at 11am.

A special edition of the journal, Clinical Risk , published by the Royal Society of Medicine, looks at how the combination of an under-regulated market, "professional greed", increased marketing and overwhelming media hype have created a "perfect storm" that threatens patients and practitioners alike.

Robotic surgery is safe for use in children, but there's little evidence that outcomes for this type of surgery are any better than they are with standard operations, the authors of a new review of medical studies published in Pediatrics conclude.

Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance, according to a troubling new study.

A U.S study, published this month in the Journal of bone & Joint Surgery, revealed that aggressively managing patients at risk for osteoporosis could reduce hip fracture rates by 25%. About 650,000 men and women were followed in Kaiser Permanente Through targeting people at risk, ensuring they get bone density screening, appropriate medications and ...

The president of Britain's Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons says the market for cosmetic surgery in the UK is an 'unregulated mess'. File photo / Kenny Rodger Shrink The president of Britain's Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons says the market for cosmetic surgery in the UK is an 'unregulated mess'. File photo / Kenny Rodger It is a ...

A report on the Nine Network's A Current Affair has "crucified" a Sydney plastic surgeon, making him out to be a monster, when he's really an "unsung Australian hero like Fred Hollows", his barrister says.