The notorious Brazilian butt lift remains a controversial procedure, with its latest version now believed to have resulted in the death of a young woman in the…
Patients are at risk of HIV and hepatitis B due to poor hygiene practices at a cosmetic clinic where unregistered staff allegedly performed cosmetic surgeries,…
Professor Mark Ashton says the rise in young women having undergone botched labiaplasties is “nothing short of worryingly spectacular”. The number of women coming to…
A doctor has won a two-year battle to practise again after a tribunal found that the Medical Board of Australia wrongly attempted to impose conditions…
A Chinese national found guilty of performing illegal and fatal breast augmentation surgery will spend the next 30 months behind bars. Jie Shao, 40, arrived…
The global cosmetic surgery market has witnessed remarkable growth in recent years. In 2021, it was valued at US$67 billion ($105 billion), and projections suggest…
A plastic surgeon has been reprimanded after he dropped a chin implant on a theatre floor before picking it up and placing it in a…
A highly profitable medical industry is undergoing a rebranding in the aftermath of the new laws banning doctors without the necessary training from describing themselves…
Medical Board of Australia chair Dr Anne Tonkin has thanked the doctors who have come forward with information on shonky cosmetic surgery operators, saying they’ve…
GPs have raised concerns about their responsibilities following AHPRA’s release of the Guidelines for Registered Medical Practitioners who Perform Cosmetic Surgery and Procedures, which came…
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