British men suddenly got very concerned with the appearance of their… chest. Over the past five years, the number of men seeking breast reduction surgery has increased by 1000%. Full story

Researchers at the Stanford University claim that fat removed during liposuction surgery can be used as a valuable source of stem cells. Fat cells are ready to be reprogrammed into stem cells right away without preliminary growing in the lab for several weeks. Skin cells that are often used to produce stem cells must be grown from three to four weeks before they can be ... Full story

A study recently published in the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery strongly advises postop patients to take probiotic supplements that will quicken weight loss to a considerable extent. Full story

American actress and model Pamela Anderson – who’s now pushing 42 – has revealed she avoids looking in the mirror and hates her tabloid photos because they get her down. Hollywood celebrity with magnificent silicone bosom occasionally comments on her looks at her official web site. Recently Pamela wrote how she laughed bitterly at the photos capturing her sunbathing with the family on Hawaii. The model finds comfort in the fact that people can see she never went under knife or had Botox injections, though. Full story

Gastric bypass surgery performed by British surgeons on a 17 year old British teenager who weighed nearly 476 pounds helped the young girl lose 280 pounds which was actually more than a half of her weight. The misfortune for Malissa Jones of Selby, England, came as she reached the age of two when she began to gain weight very quickly and the kid's problems only aggravated as she grew up. Full story

Richard Fleming, the owner of the Beverly Hills Aesthetic Surgical Institute, says that many cosmetic surgery clients believe Hollywood stars to be the standard of beauty. They want to look as fresh, cheerful, energetic, and young as the celebrities smiling at them from the glossy covers of the magazines. Who do most clients want to be similar to? Who don't they want to look like? Full story

Women who decide to enlarge their cup size with the help of silicone implants put themselves at risk of developing a rare form of lymphoma - malignant tissue tumor. T-cell lymphoma may develop after breast augmentation in most cases. This lymphoma is characterized with rapid tumor growth and complicated treatment process. As a rule, this type of lymphoma is a very rare form and makes up three or less percent of total metastasis occurrences. Full story

Hang Mioku, 48, first went under knife when she was 28. After numerous plastic surgeries, her looks changed so drastically that surgeons refused to carry out further operation, thinking she had some mental disorder. One doctor, however, who used to make silicone injections into her face, gave her a syringe and silicone for self-injections. Mioku soon ran out of her silicone but her pursue for "perfect" beauty stayed on. Korean woman thought it was a good idea to use cooking oil instead of silicone. Full story

It was always women who went under the knife and had all kinds of beauty treatments for body and face. Today's men, however, are rapidly catching up with women in plastic surgery. According to beauty experts, men are now “hanging up” on Botox. Five years ago, wrinkles in the forehead of a man in his forties were quite attractive and told about wisdom acquired with age. Today, men don’t want to look noticeably older than women of their age. Looking at magic changes in women, men also took a fancy for trying cosmetic achievements of mankind. Full story

Actress Tara Reid does not like it when people critique her body. Tara, who will turn 33 in a week, says that she has been a “target” in the eyes of the press for a number of years already. She realizes that she is not perfect but says that the only thing she can do about it is to move on and live her life the way it is. The scars, which Tara calls "my battle wounds" remind about her plastic surgery experience. She received her first "wounds" back in 2002 when she decided for the boob job. Full story

American scientists have figured out the real cause of eye bags that appear with aging. It turned out to be a fat expansion in the eye sockets. So far plastic surgeons believed we get baggy eyes because of weakening of eye ligaments that hold fat tissue in the eye sockets. That’s why, the present eyelid surgery technique known as blepharoplasty is based upon tightening these eye ligaments. Full story

According to statistics, the upper eyelid contains about 90-160 hairs reaching 8-12mm in length. The lower eyelid contains less number – 75-80 hairs of 6-8mm in length. Each month hairs are shed, and then they are replaced by new ones reaching the same length. It is a natural renewal process we have no influence upon. Unfortunately, no miraculous cream can cause eyelashes to grow longer and thicker. Eyelash length, thickness, color, and growth rate are genetically determined. Nevertheless, due to hair transplantation experiments, first performed by Dr. Diffenbach two centuries ago in 1822, today's fashion-conscious women can obtain the eyelashes they have been dreaming about. Full story

British doctors successfully performed the surgery to save the baby who was growing not in the womb, but in the abdomen. Jayne Jones, 38, had repeating abdominal pains during her pregnancy. At a routine ultra-sound scan, doctors surprisingly saw a well growing baby outside the womb. Full story

Medics are currently testing a new method of excess weight loss, which lets the patient live their normal life without changing their nutritional habits or dieting. The reduction of the calorie intake is provided by electronic implant VBLOC made by EnteroMedics. The new invention is said to have little or no side effects. Full story

Lots of women dream of getting rid of that fat on their waists and hips, but are afraid of liposuction, as this is a serious surgical procedure. They have no idea, how they will look and what happens after liposuction has been performed. You already know the types of liposuction, and here is some more useful information about it. Not everyone can afford this operation, but those, who still do, should know what they should expect after they have it done. Full story

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery indicates in the annual report, that 11.7 million cosmetic procedures were performed in the US in 2007. The cost of all of them is roughly $13.2 billion. According to the report, since 1997 surgical procedures have increased by 114%, while nonsurgical procedures rose by 754%. 18% of the procedures performed in 2007 were surgical. Full story

I used to share a room with my elder brother, when I was a little girl. We played together, made smoke screen in the elevator out of a piece of plastic and foil, had brutal box fights without boxing-gloves. We had many different things and situations, which kids normally have. But sometimes I had no sleep because of him. It happened when he got cold. In the middle of the night he started to snore, louder and louder, it was absolutely impossible to sleep, until I threw something heavy to the wardrobe and he stopped. After some minutes of silence I heard his snore again. Full story