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Cosmetic Medicine

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Watch This Creepy Face Transplant Video Celebrating UCLA's New Surgery Program

    Living in L.A., you know someone, someday will turn this into an opportunity to finally make Joan Rivers attractive. For now, UCLA's foray into the face transplant business seems inspired by disfigured war veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The university announced this week that it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Plastic Surgeons: Fake Boobs Make a Good Mother's Day Gift

    Happy Mother's Day?​Instead of a lush bouquet of flowers, coupons to mow the lawn, or yet another greeting card, why not get your mother what she really wants for Mother's Day? What is it? A tummy tuck and fake tits, apparently.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Plastic Surgery for Men is Not Just Celebs Anymore

    Barry Manilow was ahead of his time with plastic surgery ​When it comes to facelifts, liposuction, breast reduction and other cosmetic surgeries, women have always been more willing than men to go under the knife. Pain in the name of beauty, or some twisted version of it. But that trend is slowl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    61-Year-Old L.A. Woman Dies At Hands Of Beverly Hills And Encino 'Plastic Surgeon' Ehab Mohamed

    Beverly Hills Advanced LaserDr. Ehab Mohamed​Updated after the jump: Did Dr. Mohamed try to perform a hernia repair on himself? Originally posted at 10 a.m. It's a "Nip/Tuck" episode come horrifyingly to life: Los Angeles gynecologist turned plastic surgeon Dr. Ehab Mohamed operated on 61-yea ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2010

    DRAMA SCREAMS

    Beverly Hills Advanced LaserDr. Ehab Mohamed​Updated after the jump: Did Dr. Mohamed try to perform a hernia repair on himself? Originally posted at 10 a.m. It's a "Nip/Tuck" episode come horrifyingly to life: Los Angeles gynecologist turned plastic surgeon Dr. Ehab Mohamed operated on 61-yea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Carly Fiorina, Rebublican U.S. Senate Candidate, Hospitalized With Infection Caused By Breast Reconstruction Surgery

    Associated PressCarly Fiorina on a better day​[Updated after the jump: Fiorina will be released today -- and is expected back on the trail by tomorrow.] [Updated after the jump with the probability that this is just an infection. Expert commentary from Laura Kruper, M.D., an assistant profess ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Great Moments In Innovation: OC Register Gives Meg Whitman Plastic Surgery Tips

    OC RegisterColin Stewart has some advice for Meg Whitman​We have seen the future of journalism, and it involves the guy on the right giving out plastic surgery advice to politicians. Today's installment finds Colin Stewart, the Orange County Register's "innovation columnist," surveying plastic sur ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 15, 2010

    CRY ME A RIVERS

    OC RegisterColin Stewart has some advice for Meg Whitman​We have seen the future of journalism, and it involves the guy on the right giving out plastic surgery advice to politicians. Today's installment finds Colin Stewart, the Orange County Register's "innovation columnist," surveying plastic sur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Today In WTF (Part 2): Siblings Arrested For Allegedly Injecting Patients With Plastic Butt Implants

    ​Now, specializing in booty implants is strange enough (it's a particular, Latino taste -- don't ask). But cops say two San Fernando Valley siblings -- not recognized doctors in the United States, mind you -- allegedly specialized in butt and face implants that were not, apparently, made of me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Plastic Surgery On The Wane In America

    FoxNip/Tuck​This is really sad news for this here capital of nip/tuck. Cosmetic surgery is down a whole one percent in the United States, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Beverly Hills, Newport Beach, Encino, Las Vegas -- we know you can do better. On your own you can mak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Doctor Used Other Physicians' Names To Perform Nip/Tucks On Insurance Companies' Dime

    Frances McDormand's character in 'Burn After Reading' was desperate to have insurance cover plastic surgery.​A Torrance-based doctor was convicted this week of charging insurance companies for medically unnecessary procedures that included facelifts and tummy tucks, according to the U.S. Depta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    60 Seconds of Video Terror by 60 Watt Kid (MP3)

    Long Beach's 60 Watt Kid is a band on the rise. Since moving to Southern California from San Francisco, the trio has become a regular fixture at art-oriented, all-ages venues like The Smell and Echo Curio. Both live and on record, the group maintains an odd but enticing duality, vacillating between ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Coffee, Cream or Botox?

    Fake Botox -- now there's a concept. But that's what Beverly Hills Dr. David Cary Hansen is accused of shooting into his patients'  faces, according to an L.A. grand jury indictment handed down Thursday. It brings to mind Fake Plastic Surgeon  Patricia Villegas, the enterprising Queens, N. ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 26, 2004

    Make War, Not Breasts

    Fake Botox -- now there's a concept. But that's what Beverly Hills Dr. David Cary Hansen is accused of shooting into his patients'  faces, according to an L.A. grand jury indictment handed down Thursday. It brings to mind Fake Plastic Surgeon  Patricia Villegas, the enterprising Queens, N. ... More >>

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    The Fatty Arbuckle Memorial Awards for 2003

    Fake Botox -- now there's a concept. But that's what Beverly Hills Dr. David Cary Hansen is accused of shooting into his patients'  faces, according to an L.A. grand jury indictment handed down Thursday. It brings to mind Fake Plastic Surgeon  Patricia Villegas, the enterprising Queens, N. ... More >>

  • News

    January 16, 2003

    Venus de Me

    The waxing of male beauty

  • Columns

    December 20, 2001

    Save Your Ass

    The waxing of male beauty

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Letters

    The waxing of male beauty

  • News

    December 23, 1999

    Why Did He Cut Off That Man's Leg?

    The Peculiar Practice of Dr. John Ronald Brown

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    Letters

    The Peculiar Practice of Dr. John Ronald Brown

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    Wrap It Up

    The Peculiar Practice of Dr. John Ronald Brown

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    My Body

    my nose

  • News

    July 30, 1998

    Letters

    ...Great goddamn article about LSD ["The Trip," July 3-9]. You consistently outperform any other L.A. publication. Kudos...

  • News

    July 23, 1998

    Letters

    ...Your May 15-21 Naked Hollywood article by Charles Fleming ["It's the Jews"] was irresponsible journalism at its worst...

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Turning Back the Clock

    The Weekly has reached a new high in its reputation for muckraking with the recent criticism of Ira Yellin and the Grand Central Market restoration ["Grand Central Stalemate," March 27–April 2].

  • Art+Books

    March 5, 1998

    Keeping Up Appearances

    Two perspectives on how we look and what it means

  • Art+Books

    March 5, 1998

    Je Voudrais Del Taco

    Orlan goes to the desert

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