18 Year Old Australians Opting For Medic...
Posted by ReeBKK in Blog on 06 9th, 2010 | No Comments
According to Australia’s Daily Telegraph, more and more young Australians are traveling abroad to undergo cosmetic surgery procedures.
South-east Asia is fast becoming one of the most popular destinations for patients seeking first class medical tourism, and when considering quality and cost of elective...
Butt Augmentation On The Rise...
When a woman asks, “Does my bum look big in this?” what should you reply? Judging by new statistics the answer an increasing amount of women want to hear is not, “No, not at all,” but, “Oh yes! Beautiful and curvaceous.”
According to latest study by American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery...
Worlds First Complete Face Transplant...
On March 20th, 2010, a team of 30 doctors from the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital operated for almost 24 hours to complete what is said to be the world’s first full face transplant.
The man, who was left unable to breathe, swallow or talk properly following a shooting accident 5 years ago,...
Fake Plastic Surgeon Jailed In Dubai...
Fake Plastic Surgeon Steven Moos An American doctor has been sentenced to jail in Dubai for stealing the identity of a top plastic surgeon to carryout botched operations on the kitchen table of his apartment that left at least two women badly disfigured.
Steven Moos, 40, was jailed for up to three months...
Cosmetic Surgery Becoming Popular In Ira...
Noor Aziz Nose Job As the violence subside on the streets of Iraq, beauty salons and clinics are beginning to pop up, prompting many to undergo cosmetic surgery to lift their spirits.
Noor Aziz, 26, never much cared for her nose. “When I’m quiet I don’t have a problem with my face,”...
Artificial Organs Grown With Printer...
In 2006, Anthony Atala conducted a transplant operation that was a first for medical science – the patients new bladder was not from a typical donor, it was grown in the lab from the patients own cells.
The technology has come along way since 1996, when Atala and his team first discovered they could use...
US Army Medic Treats Himself After Snipe...
The main role of a combat medic is provide first aid and frontline trauma care for the platoon. But what happens when the medic himself is injured? In Spc. Mortensen’s case, he treated himself.
A medic with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Spc. Matthew Mortensen, of Olathe, Kan....
Stem Cells Restore Eyesight...
British surgeons have developed a pioneering new technique to restore eyesight using stem cells. The procedure has already cured the sight of several patients who have lost their vision through injury or disease.
Currently, the technique has only been used on patients who have lost their sight in one eye,...
Australian Doctors Separate Conjoined Tw...
Hospital officials at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, say that twin Bangladeshi girls who were joined at the top of their heads and shared brain tissue have successfully been separated after 25 hours of delicate surgery.
Hospital chief, Leo Donnan, said that both girls are doing “very...
Scientist Engineer Rabbit Penises...
Scientist have successfully grown fully functional penises in dismembered rabbits.
In the experiment, led by Anthony Atala, the team surgically removed the corpora cavernosas of 12 rabbit, then replaced them with new scaffolds, made of collagen. All of revitalized rabbits attempted to mate, 8 were able to...
