News tagged with 'Plastic Surgery'

A 37-year-old mother goes to a tanning medspa to have liposuction and has a seizure and is now brain dead. The clinic was not licensed to do medical procedures using general anesthesia, and the doctor was an occupational physician, not a plastic surgeon.

Nearly one in four households have someone afflicted by the debilitating pain of migraines. Now there may be new hope, from a common plastic surgery procedure, according to new research published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

The death of Donda West following her plastic surgery in November 2007, resulted in attempts to change the law about outpatient surgical clinics in California. Now the surgeon, Dr. Jan Adams, has surrendered his medical license. The Harvard educated doctor is facing numerous complaints including two DUI convictions. 

The family of a woman recovering from a mauling by a chimp, has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the owner.  The chimp was shot and killed by police. The woman has lost most of her face and remains sedated one month after the attack.   

This Beverly Hills plastic surgeon admits he turned body fat into fuel for his SUV. That revelation comes as a result of several lawsuits from patients dissatisfied with extensive lipo-suction, they say was performed by assistants. The doctor has since left the country.

Two bills before the California legislature tighten regulations on cosmetic procedures, the doctors that perform them, and the outpatient clinics where they are frequently done. The bills follow the death of Donda West, mother of music producer and rapper, Kanye West.

The family of 18-year old Stephanie Kuleba speaks out on the Today Show about the decision to have plastic surgery and the homework she and her mother did to find just the right doctor.   The family attorney calls them "a couple of auto mechanics."

Boca Raton police today released the 911 tapes of the emergency call made by the clinic where 18-year old Stephanie Kuleba was having a medical crisis reacting to anesthesia. When minutes count to deliver an antidote, the tapes show there was a time delay.

18-year-old Stephanie Kuleba was supposed to have routine breast surgery in a plastic surgeon's outpatient clinic. Now following her death from anesthesia, the question is whether prescreening could have found her  genetic condition and whether the clinic had the proper antidote on hand that could have saved her life.