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Massive £6million payout for face-lift gone wrong

May 23, 2011

A 49 year old English business woman named Penny Johnson has been awarded £6 million in damages today after suing her plastic surgeon. Ms Johnson went in for what she thought was a regular face lift procedure, intending to look more youthful and reduce the sagging of the skin on her face and neck. The [...]

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New Jersey restricts Botox for minors

May 20, 2011

Botox injections are to be restricted in New Jersey to ensure that minors can’t get them without a doctor saying it’s medically necessary. A new bill has been approved by the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee, after a study by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery showed that teenagers received more than 12,000 [...]

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Cosmetic surgery booming in North Korea

May 16, 2011

Strangely, in one of the world’s most repressive countries, and despite extreme poverty and threatened famine, women are still managing to keep up with fashion trends and popular body image by having plastic surgery. In a country where most women tend to wear uniforms or dull clothing suited to a school in the 50’s…it seems [...]

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