More Patients Undoing Nips and Tucks

Heidi Montag isn't alone in her apparent addiction

(NEWSER) - Heidi Montag is a gimme—but what other under-40 celebs have gone way overboard with the cosmetic surgery? The Frisky lists the top 10:

• Megan Fox: She was already too hot for her own good—did she really need her alleged breast augmentation, nose job, and lip injections?
• Lil Kim: The rapper looked a lot better before her boob job, nose job, cheek implants, liposuction, and skin lightening.

Plastic surgeon Hank Chien topped record score during Feb. blizzard

(NEWSER) - Step aside, Billy Mitchell—the new “King of Kong” is New York City plastic surgeon Hank Chien, who beat Mitchell's Donkey Kong scoring record by 10,000 points. The arbiter of Donkey Kong scoring, Twin Galaxies, has verified Chien’s score on the classic arcade game. The real shocker: The doctor has been playing the game only since last September. “It’s something to add to my resume,” says the Harvard grad. More»

Soothing classical sounds improve accuracy, doctor says

(NEWSER) - Just like on TV, real surgeons listen to music in the operating room—and it may make them better sawbones. Research by a Massachusetts doc suggests that some soothing Mozart improves accuracy when a surgeon repeats a surgical task. Silence ain’t bad, either—but hearing German folk music issue from one ear and death metal from the other, unsurprisingly appears less than helpful. More»

(NEWSER) - Victoria Beckham has apparently helped fuel a mini-fad of nipple surgery following rather noticeable changes that she has been flaunting behind T-shirts, reports the Daily Mail. The operations--which the former Spice Girl may or may not have had--can modify size, color, and shape. One busy London clinic reports a 30% rise in nipple surgeries in the last year. "I've had patients coming to my surgery clutching pictures of celebrities and saying: 'I'd like breasts like hers,'" said one surgeon. But another doc suggested a cheaper, more comfortable alternative: fake stick-on silicon nipples. More»

Bungling 'Dr. Death' faces extradition

(NEWSER) - A doctor accused of leaving a bloody trail of surgical mistakes from New York to Australia to Oregon, has been arrested in Portland, the AP reports. Jayant Patel, a US citizen, fled to Oregon in 2005 after an inquiry was launched into botched operations linked to 17 deaths at a Queensland hospital. "Patel bungled surgeries with tragic results," said a court memo. More»