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 [...]

Wishing to rid themselves of baggy, tired skin under their eyes, more and more men are choosing cosmetic surgery. Blepharoplasty, commonly known as a eyelid surgery, can give men or women back the smoother, more awake appearance they lost with age. If you live in or near Seattle, contact Dr. Robert Grenley for a consultation [...]

A study that recently appeared in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal found that women who had breast reduction surgery to reduce the size of their large breasts had less back pain and greater self-esteem following the procedure. According to statistics, more than 150,000 women had breast reduction surgery last year.
“This study further demonstrates that the connection [...]

A California dermatologist was recently slapped for using “black market Botox” - he was reprimanded for injecting non-FDA approved botulinum toxin into ten of his patients.
In an effort to save some money, he and a hundred or so of his colleagues purchased the black market Botox at medical conventions without realizing it wasn’t approved for [...]

Plastic surgery is no longer the sole province of the rich. In particular, more and more people of the middle class are using Botox to soften their facial wrinkles. But with the recent economic downturn, many of those people are cutting back on Botox treatments and other luxury purchases. The plastic surgery market was once [...]