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At one point, Lisa Rinna’s lips were almost as famous as she was, and she wasn’t happy about it: so, in August this year, the star went under the knife again to fix her botched upper lip. Speaking to People magazine, who is now promoting both a new reality show and a book, says that her upper lip was so s... |
6 October 2010
13:21 GMT |
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Patients about to undergo cancer surgery, understand the procedure and its risks much better if they are presented to them on an interactive media, concluded researchers from the University of Melbourne, Australia.The researchers randomly chose 40 patients due to undergo radical prostatectomy and divided them into tw... |
5 October 2010
09:11 GMT |
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Clearly, the future of surgery is in robots, as experts in the field seem to believe. The limitations that surgeons have are now quietly being exceeded, as they begin to use artificial systems to make their jobs easier.The da Vinci system is the best example of that. It is essentially nothing but a giant robot, which... |
4 October 2010
08:45 GMT |
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Investigators have recently established that teens who get a gastric bypass surgery, and then become pregnant, have a much higher chance of having babies who suffer from birth defects than their peers. Though the correlation was only established in a small number of cases, experts believe that further investigations ... |
4 October 2010
04:16 GMT |
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Firefly stem cells are just like normal stem cells, except they have the same enzyme that makes fireflies glow, and they might be the key to helping doctors heal damaged hearts without cutting into the patient's chest. These glowing stem cells were engineered by Steven Ebert, in his University of Central Flori... |
28 September 2010
11:04 GMT |
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A team of experts announces the development of a new type of materials, that could in the near future be used to improve the detection and treatment of breast cancer. According to its creators, the new material is capable of acting like a tag for young cancer cells that are just developing in the breast. This in turn... |
20 September 2010
01:46 GMT |
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For the past two months, Sheyla Hershey of Texas has been battling a very severe infection. Convinced that her implants actually put her life in danger, Hershey has finally decided to have them removed.The 29-year-old mother of two had to go to her native Brazil to have the surgery done that would make her the woman ... |
14 September 2010
14:51 GMT |
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As talk about buyer’s remorse in the case of Heidi Montag continues to make the rounds, Cosmetic Surgery Bible conducted a poll to try and determine how many other patients might be in the same situation and felt regret after going under the knife.The results were shocking, with only one third of those question... |
8 September 2010
15:41 GMT |
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Investigators from TU Delft say that it is now possible to conduct virtual simulations of keyhole surgeries, a capability that will ensure surgeons are better prepared to conduct such procedures. Keyhole surgery is very complex to perform in any case, and involves the use of complex technologies. Those performing the... |
6 September 2010
10:41 GMT |
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Bras as we know them may soon become a thing of the past, as the same may happen to corrective surgery for sagging breasts. A new procedure which allows for the placement of a cone-shaped polyester mesh under the skin could be the solution to this problem most women have. The procedure is relatively new, in the ... |
4 September 2010
16:12 GMT |
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Healthcare experts announce that the third double-hand transplant performed in the United States may be a success, given that the patient can wiggle his fingers. The accomplishment is tremendously important, given the complex nature of the surgery required to make this a reality. The procedure had low odds of success... |
3 September 2010
05:20 GMT |
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The use of weight loss surgery or bariatric surgery, is ten times more frequent in NHS hospitals in England, than it was in 2000, a new study published on bmj.com finds.A team of researchers from the Imperial College London analyzed national results after surgery on obese patients in the NHS in England.They used the ... |
28 August 2010
06:52 GMT |
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It’s not for nothing that health experts are constantly warning us of the health dangers of fizzy drinks in general. Coca Cola also falls in this category, despite recent efforts on behalf of the company to make it healthier and help people become more aware of the high amount of calories they’re ingestin... |
6 July 2010
15:31 GMT |
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80-year-old television personality and co-host on the popular The View, Barbara Walters is taking some time off to undergo heart surgery, she announced on the show, as People magazine can confirm. The decision of having surgery on the heart was not a scary one, actually coming with a sense of relief, but she’d ... |
11 May 2010
04:58 GMT |
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When surgeons perform heart bypass surgery on patients, they generally tend to remove certain sections of several veins, in order to conduct the procedure. Usually, these leftovers are disposed off without another glance, but a new investigation suggests that they too could contribute to saving lives. According to re... |
26 April 2010
11:43 GMT |
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Women looking for a larger cup size have now another option to the traditional silicone implants or the much cheaper variant of a well-padded support bra. Cosmetic surgeon Laurence Kirwan, operating both in London and New York, has come up with an idea for augmentation without using any foreign substance but breast t... |
23 March 2010
17:31 GMT |
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One of the most dangerous things about any major surgery is when a doctor inadvertently cuts through a large blood vessel, or when one ruptures. As this happens, the risk of the patient dying on the operating table becomes very large. This is a very dangerous time, and experts doing the surgery must act fast, wit... |
13 March 2010
04:54 GMT |
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With the advent of robotic surgery systems such as the da Vinci, the world of doctors performing these procedures has changed. The classical way of doing things, in which the surgeon is taught how to “feel” his or her way through an incision, is now being replaced by methods in which new practitioners are... |
26 February 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Thick eyebrows are back in fashion, with everyone singing their praises, from stars rocking them on the red carpet to stylists who call them the ultimate “symbol of power.” For those of us whom years of plucking have left with nothing but a faint trace of the brows we used to have, or who have never had s... |
22 February 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Admittedly, there is only one thing that can make Chuck Norris cry and that is the mere sight of Jack Bauer. The jury might still be out on who’s the meanest of the two, but, for the time being, it would seem that a ruptured cyst is what can get Bauer himself, as production on the popular show “24” ... |
16 February 2010
10:34 GMT |
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Although it’s a known fact that, at times, positive criticism works wonders, a surgeon in New Zealand took this one step too far, literally swearing at one of his overweight patients and even refusing to treat her. The surgeon, whose identity has not been made public, lost his temper when the woman told him tha... |
12 February 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Late last week, Heidi Montag, usually a fixture in the tabloid media, reemerged in the spotlight after an absence of almost two months. She also had a new face and a new body to show off, having undergone massive cosmetic surgery to help her get over her many insecurities. Her husband of one year, Spencer Pratt, thou... |
25 January 2010
05:53 GMT |
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In October last year, British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber announced that he would be taking a break from the industry to seek treatment for prostate cancer, with which he had just been diagnosed. As early as back then, Webber said that he was determined to fight the disease – which he successfully managed to d... |
12 January 2010
09:41 GMT |
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Recent advancements in nanotechnology and the field of robotics could mean that small-scale nanobots could soon make their way into operating theaters, experts predict. There are already a few research groups conducting investigations in this field, and some of them have made considerable headway. This is also the ca... |
22 December 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Hollywood star Melanie Griffith has often prompted speculation about undergoing major surgical procedures for cosmetic reasons because of her ever-changing looks. With this in mind, it’s no wonder the US media thought this was also the case when she was spotted with a black eye the other day. Unfortunately, thi... |
18 December 2009
04:38 GMT |
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French rocker Johnny Hallyday has been put in an induced coma following complications from a surgery for a slipped disc. The surgery was performed in Paris and, at first, seemed to have gone well. However, infection set in and the singer was put into a coma, from which he’s expected to be pulled out early this ... |
14 December 2009
03:10 GMT |
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At 19 years of age, Malissa Jones of Selby, North Yorks, England, sees herself as the unhappiest woman alive, whose future is extremely bleak unless she somehow comes up with £20,000 required to undergo cosmetic surgery. At 16, Malissa, Britain’s fattest teen, underwent gastric bypass after doctors told h... |
2 December 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Victoria Beckham has professed her love for high heels on so many occasions that she had become like the poster child for a certain type of shoes, the woman who wouldn’t be caught dead in flats or ballerina pumps. It turns out her longtime commitment to stilettos has finally taken a toll on her feet, with frien... |
27 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Endoscopes are currently of tremendous use for doctors and patients alike, because they provide healthcare experts with the ability to look inside a body without having to resort to surgery, biopsies, or other types of invasive procedures. A University of Florida engineering researcher has now taken the utility of th... |
20 November 2009
02:33 GMT |
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Carrie Prejean, the “biblically correct” beauty queen who made headlines around the world a few months ago for saying on the Miss USA beauty pageant that marriage should be only between a man and a woman, is again talking up a storm with the pageant that launched her. Although it was the Miss California U... |
11 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Tina Fey is a very busy woman. The 39-year-old actress, writer, comedienne and producer is also a mother and wife, and has to divide her time between her work and her home, while also trying to squeeze in a few moments for herself, to look good for the cameras. She has no problems with the first two, but she almost n... |
9 October 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Women constantly obsess about certain parts of their body, especially those that they happen not to like, for one reason or another. Aside from that, there are also specific trends of things to hate on the human body, so to speak: the muffin top, the love handles, the saggy abs, and so on and so forth. In recent mont... |
27 August 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Statistics show that the number of people who are so unhappy about their nose that they would go to extreme lengths to fix it isn’t anywhere close to small. However, rhinoplasty can’t always be the option because, first and foremost, it is an expensive procedure that also requires plenty of recovery time.... |
17 August 2009
13:21 GMT |
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When new airline pilots are being trained, they are not placed inside the cockpit as soon as they finish basic training. They spend hundreds of hours in simulators, learning all possible aspects of the plane, and how it could fail, and are given a plane after they know the machine inside out. However, in the case of ... |
11 August 2009
03:07 GMT |
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Obesity figures have gone sky-high in recent years, with estimates saying that the number of people with weight problems will increase even more in the following interval. Because of this, talk of a pandemics is warranted, as also is that of the measures needed to keep it in check. One last such method would be deep ... |
4 August 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Ultrasound imaging has been used for quite some time now for various types of screening, but is most renowned for giving would-be mothers a view of their unborn children. Up to this point, employing it for investigation purposes has been the sole means of putting the technology to good use in the medical field, but ... |
29 July 2009
02:28 GMT |
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Experts have recently hinted at a new way of ensuring a fast and complication-free healing process when sutures are involved. Biomedical engineering students from the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) have embedded patients' own adult stem cells into the wires they used for sutures, a feat that they say would ensur... |
21 July 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Methodist University Hospital in Memphis confirmed this morning that Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, had a liver transplant back in April. Up until now, the surgery was only rumored to have been performed, as Apple refused to comment on all the speculations on Jobs' health state that could be found around the Inte... |
24 June 2009
10:30 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii is a hugely successful gaming console, thanks to its huge library of games, easy-to-use interface and the fact that it is made by Nintendo, one of the most recognizable gaming companies that is also quite respected by others. But a lot of Wii's success is due to the fact that its motion-sensiti... |
19 June 2009
14:41 GMT |
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At the beginning of this week, it emerged that singer and multi-award winning DJ Sonique had been diagnosed with breast cancer and admitted to a London specialized clinic in order to have emergency surgery and treatment. The star’s rep has just confirmed for several British news agencies that the cancer has spr... |
19 June 2009
02:52 GMT |
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Kimberley Vlaminck, an 18-year-old teen from Belgium, is suing a Romanian tattoo artist for inking 56 stars on her face despite the fact that she only asked for 3 little ones, The Post Chronicle says. The girl claims she fell asleep during the procedure, and is now taking legal action against the artist in the hope t... |
17 June 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Chastity Bono, Cher’s only daughter, will be known as Chaz from hereon. Moreover, Chaz has already announced his intention of going forward with the process of gender transitioning from female to male, one that he started earlier this year, his publicist confirms for TMZ. Shortly after his 40th birthday, Chaz, ... |
12 June 2009
07:59 GMT |
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Prince made a rare public appearance the other night at the Apollo Theater’s 75th anniversary celebration to toast Patti LaBelle. The singer was seen walking with the help of a (very stylish) cane, which has prompted speculation that his older hip problems have returned. In fact, his condition has deteriorated ... |
10 June 2009
09:19 GMT |
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Although she has no issues with talking to the media herself about having surgery to remove fibroids from her uterus, Nadya Suleman can get extremely upset when her own mother does. In a recent press statement released to Radar Online, the 33-year-old OctoMom blasts her own mother for revealing details on the surgery... |
16 May 2009
05:09 GMT |
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She’s often been criticized for taking handouts and freebies, but even OctoMom Nadya Suleman knows where and when to draw the line. According to her recent interview with Radar Online, she would never get a tummy tuck, even if it came for free, which should set the record straight as regards her imminent hospit... |
13 May 2009
11:00 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, Nadya Suleman made a very shocking statement, saying she was about to have her uterus partially removed, a procedure that would have made it impossible for her to have any other children. Perhaps intimidated by the sudden wave of response from the community, Suleman is now taking back some of he... |
12 May 2009
11:12 GMT |
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OctoMom Nadya Suleman is scheduled for an operation that will take place this weekend and that will see the fibroid tumors in her uterus are removed, Radar Online informs. According to the media outlet, with whom Suleman keeps in close contact, the procedure will perhaps prevent the 33-year-old woman from having more... |
8 May 2009
08:25 GMT |
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Plastic surgery, especially the one performed in the so-called cowboy cosmetic clinics, is not meant to help patients overcome their issues, but is rather focused on profit, for which, understandably, the patient is essential. The cosmetic industry is like any other industry, and is certainly not too preoccupied with... |
23 April 2009
15:21 GMT |
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The latest scientific data on the matter prove that a controversial type of heart surgery, in which doctors fold the scar tissue of the heart unto itself, has little significant results for the well-being of the patient. Rather, it poses a great danger to their health, on account of the fact that the procedure is ver... |
30 March 2009
07:19 GMT |
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Microtia is a fairly rare medical condition, which is encountered in about 1 in 10,000 newborn babies and is characterized by a small or inexistent external ear. Most patients are born with an underdeveloped auditory organ, while others have the auditory canal blocked as well. For these people, reconstructive surgery... |
18 March 2009
10:15 GMT |
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