Mastectomy or lumpectomy? Breast reconstruction or not? What type of chemo? There are lots of questions when faced with a breast cancer diagnosis, and some advocates fear women aren’t being given all the options.

Botox and filler-filled faces are smiling ear-to-ear hearing the news. It’s a lunch hour fix that can finally be quick and pain free.

Post-traumatic stress disorder may be a condition of the mind, but research has implicated it in the ills of the body. Now, a new study suggests it may be associated with death after surgery.

Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years ago while sucking down a soft drink at a Wendy’s restaurant.

Nine years of blindness almost drove Sharron “Kay” Thornton to suicide. In the end, it was one of her teeth and a procedure surgeons said was never before done in the United States that restored her sight.

Aside from everyday functions of chewing, swallowing, talking, tasting and showing dissatisfaction, the tongue has new uses such as steering wheelchairs and helping blind people see.

A newborn baby boy with a heart protruding from his chest is set to undergo a complex surgery in New Delhi, India.

Connecticut Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd is expected to be in the hospital for a few days after prostate cancer surgery.

Facial surgery that targets and removes small portions of migraine-triggering muscle or nerve tissue may offer permanent relief for some people with the debilitating headaches, a new study suggests.

There’s a new painless laser treatment that some doctors claim removes pounds and inches, with no side effects! But one medical expert has serious doubts about this new invention.

Last year, more than 152,430 rhinoplasties were done in the U.S.

Scarring and complications can affect the final appearance of a nose job.

A high definition telescope and a 3D high definition camera are being used to obtain a better balanced facial appearance for rhinoplasty patients.

Tissue glue instead of packing reduces bleeding and swelling and speeds recovery.

Often called one of the best college basketball players of all time, Wayman Tisdale played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 12 years.  In February 2007, Tisdale learned of a cancerous cyst below his knee after falling down steps and breaking his right leg. After 2 years of cancer treatment, he died May 15, 2009

Obesity increases the risk for death by 10 to 50 percent and causes 112,000 excess deaths each year.

More than 103,000 gastric bypass surgeries were done in 2003.

Within two to seven years, up to 40 percent of surgery patients regain weight.

A procedure called StomaphyX™ enables doctors to shrink down a stretched stomach pouch by making small pleats in the walls of the pouch.

Doctors are testing a new kind of obesity surgery without any cuts through the abdomen, snaking a tube as thick as a garden hose down the throat to snap staples into the stomach.

Over the past ten years, the number of COSMETIC procedures performed in the U.S. has increased 162 percent. Demand for nonsurgical procedures increased by over 233 percent, and researchers expect that trend to continue into the next decade.