All posts tagged: Surgeons

Trump’s HHS lauds plastic surgeons’ statement on care for transgender minors : NPR

Trump’s HHS lauds plastic surgeons’ statement on care for transgender minors : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Transgender rights supporters rallied at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, DC, after the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in June 2025. Mariam Zuhaib/AP hide caption toggle caption Mariam Zuhaib/AP The Trump administration celebrated a recent statement from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which recommends that doctors delay gender-related surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old. “Today marks another victory for biological truth in the Trump administration,” wrote Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill said in a press release. “The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has set the scientific and medical standard for all provider groups to follow.” In an email to NPR, ASPS notes that the new position statement is not a reversal of a previous position. It is also not a new clinical practice guideline, but rather an articulation of the professional group’s recommendations “given the current state of the evidence and variability in legal and regulatory environments,” it says. Pressure that’s working That legal and regulatory environment is …

Plastic Surgeons Dr. Layke and Dr. Danielpour on Why Overfilled Looks Are Out (and What’s Worth Doing Instead)

Plastic Surgeons Dr. Layke and Dr. Danielpour on Why Overfilled Looks Are Out (and What’s Worth Doing Instead)

Published by Daniella Wilson

Celebrity board certified plastic surgeons Dr. John Layke and Dr. Payman Danielpour are emphasizing the over in overdone. The Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery Group partners sat down with ET to break down why exaggerated filler trends are fading, and what A-list patients and beyond should be investing in instead. “I’m over BBLs, overfilled lips, and thread lifts,” Layke explained. “The fake look with overfilled faces and buttocks is done,” Danielpour added. So, what’s in? According to the doctors, it’s all about treatments designed to improve skin quality and texture without changing the face. Beverly Hills MD “People want to address sun damage, dark spots, and wrinkles. … I’m seeing a rise in microneedling with exosomes and stem cells,” Layke shared. And with colder months underway, it’s an ideal season for options that require a bit more downtime. “The absolute favorite winter treatment is the fractionated CO2 laser. … People are using regenerative medicine for antiaging, red-light therapy, hyperbaric chambers, and all things non-invasive,” Danielpour continued. But if you’re looking for more dramatic changes, the pair …

Restoring surgeons’ sense of touch with robotic fingertips

Restoring surgeons’ sense of touch with robotic fingertips

Published by skeptic

Researchers are developing robotic “fingertips” that could restore surgeons’ sense of touch during minimally invasive and robotic operations. Modern surgery has gone from long incisions to tiny cuts guided by robots and AI. In the process, however, surgeons have lost something vital: the chance to feel inside the body directly. Without palpation, it becomes harder to detect tissue abnormalities during an operation. A group of surgeons and engineers across Europe is now working to restore this vital aspect of surgery. Working within an EU-funded research collaboration called PALPABLE, they are developing a soft robotic “fingertip” that can sense tissue firmness or softness during minimally invasive and robotic surgery. The research runs until the end of 2026, with a first prototype expected to be tested by surgeons around March 2026. By combining optical sensing, soft robotics and AI, the team is designing a probe that mimics the way a fingertip presses and feels during surgery. It would gently probe organs and create a visual map of tissue stiffness, displayed on a screen to guide surgeons during surgery. …

Plastic Surgeons Are Using Material From Dead People on New Patients

Plastic Surgeons Are Using Material From Dead People on New Patients

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Cosmetic surgeons have turned to using a “fat filler” harvested from dead people in order to give patients new breasts, sexier buttocks and other body contouring tweaks, according to reporting by Business Insider — in a practice that not even “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley could have dreamed up in her day. The hot new product in question is called alloClae, manufactured by biomedical science business Tiger Aesthetics, and it’s become increasingly popular in plastic surgery circles despite its gruesome origins and aggressive price tag — ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per procedure, according to BI — because it allows dramatically less healing time and doesn’t require patients being put under general anesthesia. “People are paying for the convenience,” New York City plastic surgeon Sachin Shridharani told the site. Historically, plastic surgeons have relied on implants or siphoning fat from another section of your body and injecting it into another part in order to perform body contouring. Using alloClae gives them a flexible new option. Another reason …

Bioethicist: Let surgeons kill patients during organ harvesting

Bioethicist: Let surgeons kill patients during organ harvesting

Published by Jenni Sidey

This article, Journal of Medical Ethics: Let Organ Harvesting Surgeons Kill Patients | National Review, is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. The “dead donor rule” (DDR) is a legal and ethical mandate that requires vital organ donors to be truly dead before their body parts are procured. A corollary to the rule holds that people cannot be killed for their organs. The DDR promotes trust in the system and protects the vulnerable — but is flexible enough to permit living donations of one kidney and parts of a liver from altruistic donors. Utilitarian bioethicists have long argued against the DDR and its corollary based on the notion that killing those who are dying or want to donate will relieve the suffering of people who want to live and need an organ. And here we go again. The Journal of Medical Ethics — out of Oxford — has published a long and complicated piece by Ohio bioethicist Lawrence J. Masek arguing that patients who want to donate should be able to be killed during — or …