The Orlando Sentinel recently featured an article by Dr. Richard Bosshardt in which he outlined the status of modern breast cancer treatments and the efforts to minimize the negative effects through reconstruction and informed prevention. Bosshardt writes that “the value society has placed on the female breast is an ancient phenomenon” since it is symbolic [...]
Art Caplan directs the center of Bioethics at University of Pennsylvania. Last summer he gave a one-hour lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York on the topic of extended life, enhancement of our bodies and the potential use of advanced stem cell technology to achieve those goals. Caplan presents a convincing argument against a [...]
Surgeons often save lives. It’s a verifiable fact. But how often have they done so using breast implants? A woman named April Pinkard recalled her incredible surgery story to Fox news affiliate just recently. When Mrs. Pinkard was born, she had a congenital lung disease, which required the removal of one lung at age 4. [...]
In light of research that shows human body fat to be rich in stem cells, cosmetic surgeons have been working toward a new method of breast augmentation; using transplanted fat to reshape the breast. The procedure is not an entirely new concept. New York surgeon Sydney Coleman has supposedly been doing it for years and [...]
