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  • September 2008

    • Plastic Surgery: Your Own Personal Stimulus Package

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 11, 08 3:36 PM CDT

      Plastic Surgery: Your Own Personal Stimulus Package

      (Newser) - Rising gas prices, fewer jobs and the slumping economic has many craving a face-lift, literally. Most would-be patients make less than $60,000, so why not have "tax breaks on cosmetic surgery for low-income Americans," Rosa Brooks suggests in the Los Angeles Times . It’s a completely rational investment, she writes, since "we live in a society that rewards beauty (and penalizes ugliness)." More »

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      work  • plastic surgery  • cosmetic surgery  • beauty  • workplace discrimination

  • August 2008

    • Celebs Make 'Baby Fat' Chic

      New York  |  Aug 4, 08 12:51 PM CDT

      Celebs Make 'Baby Fat' Chic

      (Newser) - Following the lead of Madonna and Demi Moore, women in their 50s and 60s are trading the tight pull of traditional facelifts for techniques that push out the face to resemble the baby fat plumpness of teenage definition, reports New York. The magazine dubs the sought-after look the “New New Face.” More »

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      celebrity  • Angelina Jolie  • Madonna  • aging  • plastic surgery  • dermatology  • Demi Moore  • Meg Ryan

  • June 2008

    • Docs Pay Patients to Post Surgeries on YouTube

      New York Times  |  Jun 26, 08 8:41 AM CDT

      Docs Pay Patients to Post Surgeries on YouTube

      (Newser) - When her doctor offered her a $100 discount to post her Lasek surgery on YouTube, Michelle Wilder was perplexed. “I was wondering, ‘Who wants to see my surgery?’” she says. But the money talked, and now you can see Wilder, and thousands of others, go under the knife online, the New York Times reports. More and more cosmetic surgeons are rewarding patients for such exhibitionism. More »

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      YouTube  • marketing  • plastic surgery  • cosmetic surgery  • consumer advocacy

    • 36MMM Implants Bust Record

      TMZ  |  Jun 6, 08 1:25 PM CDT

      36MMM Implants Bust Record

      (Newser) - Porn star Maxi Mounds' 36MMM breast implants are the largest in the world, TMZ reports. Guinness World Records created the category for Mounds and her 40-pound knockers, according to London's Metro. The ex-dancer—ballet and lap—had a procedure involving plastic string in 2000 that has since been banned in the US. More »

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      weird  • plastic surgery  • Guinness World Records  • breast implants  • breasts

  • May 2008

    • Regrown Finger Called 'Absurd'

      Guardian (UK)  |  May 1, 08 7:36 PM CDT

      Regrown Finger Called 'Absurd'

      (Newser) - A UK plastic surgeon repudiated claims by an American company that a powder made from a pig’s bladder spurred regrowth of a man’s severed fingertip, the Guardian reports. Stories circulated this week of Lee Spievack’s “miraculous” recovery thanks to what he called “pixie dust,” but Simon Kay, professor of hand surgery at the University of Leeds, said the reports were “junk science.” More »

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      medical research  • plastic surgery  • hoax  • pigs

  • April 2008

    • Kid Lit Meets Nip/Tuck

      Newsweek  |  Apr 17, 08 4:20 PM CDT

      Kid Lit Meets Nip/Tuck

      (Newser) - A plastic surgeon has written a children’s book aimed at explaining why Mommy is getting her tummy tucked, Newsweek reports. My Beautiful Mommy follows the story of a mother undergoing cosmetic surgery—and telling her daughter why, from doctor consultations to post-op bandages. Parents “just try to ignore the kids’ questions completely,” the author says, and his book is here to help. More »

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      plastic surgery  • Children's books  • breast implants

    • Cosmetic Surgery Can't Go Unmentioned

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 14, 08 2:07 PM CDT

      Cosmetic Surgery Can't Go Unmentioned

      (Newser) - Cosmetic surgery is out of control, TV critic Mary McNamara contends in the Los Angeles Times , and it's time to break the taboo of talking about it in mainstream criticism. TV reviews shouldn’t descend into blogospheric dissections of cosmetic work, but obvious surgery not connected to an actor’s role “can affect not only their performance but the whole tone of the show.” More »

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      television  • media  • blogosphere  • plastic surgery  • press  • cosmetic surgery  • reviews

    • Plastic Surgeons Feel Subprime Pain

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 5, 08 2:55 PM CDT

      Plastic Surgeons Feel Subprime Pain

      (Newser) - The subprime crisis has hit Goldy Anthony hard; she can’t even afford her bi-monthly trips to the plastic surgeon anymore. “I would rather have Botox than go out to dinner, but it’s just gotten so bad,” says Anthony, who works in Los Angeles' slumping mortgage business. Woes like hers are hurting Beverly Hills plastic surgeons, who are losing would-be face-lift-ees. More »

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      subprime crisis  • consumer spending  • luxury goods  • plastic surgery

  • January 2008

    • Doc Hit Skids After Kanye's Mom Died

      Associated Press  |  Jan 23, 08 2:08 PM CST

      Doc Hit Skids After Kanye's Mom Died

      (Newser) - The plastic surgeon who operated on the mother of rapper Kanye West days before her Nov. 10 death told CNN's Larry King yesterday that his Los Angeles-area practice has been "almost destroyed" by bad publicity following the tragedy. But Dr. Jan Adams, former host of the TV series Plastic Surgery: Before and After said he will continue practicing. More »

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      death  • plastic surgery  • Kanye West  • autopsy  • Donda West  • Jan Adams  • liposuction  • private practice

    • More Patients Undoing Nips and Tucks

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jan 21, 08 6:14 PM CST

      More Patients Undoing Nips and Tucks

      (Newser) - Thousands are feeling a little too "cookie-cutter" with their new nipped noses and tucked chins, one doctor says—so they're ponying up for surgery to look like (gasp!) themselves again. These 'undo-plasties' are becoming big business; some doctors spend half their time as "revision plastic surgeons." Even stars like Courtney Love, Jenna Jameson, and Julio Iglesias have admitted to undoing surgery or hating what they got. More »

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      doctor  • plastic surgery  • Courtney Love  • surgeon  • Jenna Jameson

    • Coroner Doesn't Know Why Kanye's Mom Died

      E! Online  |  Jan 11, 08 3:45 AM CST

      Coroner Doesn't Know Why Kanye's Mom Died

      (Newser) - An autopsy of rapper Kanye West's mother has failed to turn up an official cause of death, E! Online reports. A report by the Los Angeles coroner said that Donda West suffered from coronary disease as well as post-operative problems from liposuction and breast-reduction surgery, but that "the final manner of death could not be determined." More »

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      hip-hop  • rap music  • plastic surgery  • Kanye West  • Donda West  • Jan Adams  • liposuction  • coroner's report  • breast reduction

    • Latest Fat Fad: Shots That Dissolve Flab

      BBC  |  Jan 9, 08 5:23 PM CST

      Latest Fat Fad: Shots That Dissolve Flab

      (Newser) - Cosmetic surgeons are peddling a controversial new way to lose weight for those too busy to exercise. It's called "lipodissolve"—a series of injections that dissolves fat and takes 15 minutes to administer. The active ingredient, a chemical known as PCDC, melts flab within days. The procedure has been banned in several countries and hasn't yet been approved in the US, but some docs are calling it a "miracle cure." More »

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      fat  • plastic surgery  • cosmetic surgery

    • Safari With That Liposuction?

      CNN  |  Jan 3, 08 4:57 PM CST

      Safari With That Liposuction?

      (Newser) - Americans looking to get cosmetic surgery are eschewing expensive procedures at home and opting for "medical tourism," traveling abroad for cheaper procedures—that sometime come with exotic vacation perks. Countries including South Africa, Argentina, Thailand, Brazil and Singapore are marketing their health services to Americans with the promise of lower prices—and, CNN reports, a vacation getaway. More »

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      health care  • Brazil  • Thailand  • plastic surgery  • cosmetic surgery  • Costa Rica  • malpractice

  • December 2007

    • America's Vainest Cities

      Forbes  |  Dec 17, 07 1:45 PM CST

      America's Vainest Cities

      (Newser) - With Americans flocking to undergo plastic surgery —11 million went under the knife in 2006— Forbes crunched the numbers to determine the most nipped, tucked, enlarged, and liposucked cities. And while shoo-ins like LA do appear, top billing went to... Salt Lake City? Salt Lake City San Francisco More »

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      list  • plastic surgery  • Botox  • US cities