An Orlando plastic surgeon recently outlined the status of modern breast cancer treatments and the efforts of the medical community to minimize its adverse effects through reconstruction and prevention.
Dr. Richard Bosshardt writes that society’s value of the breast is an ancient phenomenon since historically, many people have viewed them as symbolic of “femininity and desirability.”  [...]

Art Caplan is the University of Pennsylvania director for the center of Bioethics. Last summer he gave a one-hour lecture at the historic Chautauqua Institution about extended life, enhancement of our bodies and the potential use of advanced stem cell technology to achieve these goals.
Caplan argues for the permissibility of enhancement by refuting the arguments [...]

New research by medical scientists has revealed that human body fat is rich in stem cells. This discovery has spawned many interesting developments on the plastic surgery front. In Japan, a surgeon named Kotaro Yoshimura claims he can fortify fat even further with stem cells and use the product to perform a breast [...]

In August, 2008 a Florida woman named April Pinkard told her surgery story to a local newspaper. The headline read, “The Woman Whose Heart Was in the Wrong Place” and the story focused on Ms. Pinkard’s rare heart condition. Well, rare conditions call for rare solutions and the one chosen for her by [...]