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Face Transplant Patients Make Progress

One surgery was done on a man who was attacked by a bear; the other surgery was for a man with a severely disfiguring tumor. The studies are published in The Lancet. A 30-year-old Chinese man who received a transplant after a bear attack experienced some complications but was doing well two years after his surgery, according to an article authored ...

Laser treatments

The continuing evolution of medical lasers, over the past several years, has provided a means of skin rejuvenation, removing skin blemishes, pigments and wrinkles, vein treatments, permanently reducing unwanted hair, acne and scar treatments, as well as treatment for multiple other skin problems. The new lasers achieve this with little or ...

Lasers repair varicose veins

Laser therapy zaps unsightly and painful varicose veins by attacking the most common cause of the disease - a weakening of the great saphenous vein in the legs. But a new study suggests the therapy also helps to restore function in other, smaller vessels, thought to cause about 20 percent of varicose veins. Lasers are proving their worth in treatin ...

Plastic Surgery Makes the Man? Maybe Not

With cosmetic procedures as popular as ever among women, some experts are wondering whether the seemingly endless push toward aesthetic perfection has a downside. At least one even suggests that a "new anorexia" may be emerging among some women in their quest for everlasting youth. Might men be succumbing to the same pressure? It cert ...