Plastic Surgery

Women opting for surgery to get Michelle Obama's arms

2013-04-29 05:47:00

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons released its latest cosmetic and resconstructive surgery statistics on Monday.� Many of the trends were familiar.� In all, the group reported, Americans underwent 1.6 million cosmetic surgeries, including face-...

Dodgers' Chad Billingsley sidelined by pain in throwing elbow

2013-04-22 00:00:00

BALTIMORE — When Chad Billingsley was put on the 15-day disabled list Sunday because of pain in his throwing elbow, Manager Don Mattingly wondered if the former All-Star's season would end on an operating table. "It's hard not to think about it,"...

Come back to Pershing Square. Again. Please.

2013-02-07 11:34:00

Pity Pershing Square. It’s been put through more makeovers than Joan Rivers, and the results haven’t been nearly as presentable. Other cities brag about their urban parks. Ours -- except for the big glamor-pusses like Griffith Park -- we...

The Sunday Conversation: Kathy Baker isn't worried about acting her age

2013-02-02 12:00:00

At 62, Kathy Baker juggles a busy schedule on screens big and small, and stage. She plays part of a quartet in Joanna Murray-Smith's provocative comedy "The Gift" at the Geffen Playhouse, which opens Wednesday. Her upcoming films include "Saving Mr....

Nobel winner Joseph Murray dies; performed first successful kidney transplant

2012-11-26 20:17:00

BOSTON — Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died at age 93. Murray suffered a stroke at his suburban Boston home on Thanksgiving and died at Brigham...

Dr. Joseph Murray dies at 93; Nobel winner performed first kidney transplant

2012-11-27 16:40:00

Since ancient times, surgeons have dreamed of transplanting healthy organs into patients disabled by disease and injury, but the human body's powerful immune system stymied all such attempts, leading many observers to conclude that the procedure was...

Phyllis Diller dies at 95; outlandish comedian

2012-08-21 00:00:00

She was a self-described "cartoon," a zany housewife-turned-comedian with an electrified hairdo who broke into the male-dominated world of stand-up comedy in the 1950s with an outlandish wardrobe and a barrage of self-deprecating jokes punctuated by her...

Skin care in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond

2012-09-23 00:00:00

Every few months a new beauty trend, treatment or potion is revealed — the latest skin-tightening laser, an age-defying ingredient or a longer-lasting filler. But should a fresh-faced 20-year-old be using retinol creams? And when is the right time...

A pretty penny for prettier skin?

2012-11-11 00:00:00

Within three weeks of its launch at Barneys in New York and Los Angeles in October, more than 30 jars of 3LAB's new Super Cream had sold — this despite its $875 price tag. Elsewhere in the beauty market, demand is soaring for a $560 Bee Venom...

TV plastic surgeon secretly videotaped female patients, police say

2012-08-03 09:04:11

Nonsurgical cosmetic treatments growing in popularity

2011-07-24 00:00:00

Dr. W. Grant Stevens calls it his fire and ice room. Stocked with lasers, skin-tightening devices, fat-zapping machines and, on a recent Wednesday, a 65-year-old woman named Helen, the brightly lighted corner of the Marina del Rey medical facility is a...

Plastic surgery — it's a guy thing too

2012-04-15 00:00:00

When John Tlapa looked in the mirror, his nose looked like he "could pick a door lock," he said. It resembled "a hook with a point on it. It was pretty ugly." So two years ago, the San Diego-based screenwriter underwent rhinoplasty to improve his profile...

On a recent humanitarian mission to India, a group of U.S. plastic surgeons of Indian descent found that many of the people - including this woman, in a before and after photo - showing up for free plastic surgery procedures were women burned in domestic violence attacks.

2013-05-13 00:00:00

Cosmetic surgery center. Hope their plastic surgeries are better than their spelling of "plastic".

2012-08-16 14:56:00

Dr. Urmen Desai and Dr. Wrood Kassira, both Miami Jackson plastic surgeons, attend a press conference updating the public on Ronald Poppo's progress one year after his brutal attack under the MacArthur Causeway in Miami. Poppo was blinded when a crazed man chewed off his face.

2012-05-20 00:00:00