This article is more than 10 years old. [Note: The savings outlined below compare vs. self-pay patients not covered by insurance. Paradoxically, those least able to pay are hit with the highest price ...

Who's the prettiest of them all? It's more than a folkloric contest in Asia, where inflated and omnipresent beauty standards inspire millions to go under the knife each year. Countries like Japan, ...

Asia’s known as the leading lady of innovative beauty trends, and no wonder — the average Asian woman uses 27 products daily. Not only did they invent our much ...

In 2015, if you need an operation, you go to a hospital. The Open Surgery Machine imagines a future in which getting an appendectomy is as DIY as downloading a template from Thingsverse and firing up ...

SEOUL, South Korea — In the heart of Seoul’s famous Gangnam neighborhood lies the “Beauty Belt,” a grouping of streets lined with hundreds of cosmetic surgery joints. Untold numbers of Koreans — as ...

As the many many warnings at the base of the Open Surgery website clearly state, doing your own surgery is a very bad idea. However, trying to build a surgery robot like Da Vinci to see if it can be ...