Achieving a natural looking hair transplant requires skill, concentration and attention to detail, all of which take time. For this reason, hair transplant surgery usually takes between 6 to 8 hours. If you're wondering what happens during this lengthy process, here is an outline of a typical day of surgery.

From what is known of the psychology of emotions and their correlation to behaviour, Botox could possibly impact risk evaluation, empathy, and communication as well. The treatment, against all fashionable opinion, seems to trigger much more than a simple confidence boost.

What are the real costs of value-for-money cosmetic surgery? Clinics using so-called 'fly-in, fly-out' cosmetic surgeons - foreign surgeons who fly into the UK, carry out a list of operations, then fly out again - are becoming increasingly common.

Anyone living with chronic disease like myself, probably experiences frequent hospitalisation. I often wonder if there should be a special club, as with airline companies who have a frequent flyer card, hospitals could create a "frequent hospitalisation club".

A woman born without a tongue has undergone groundbreaking surgery to regain basic mouth function. Brazilian 23-year-old Auristela Viana da Silva ...

Rising levels of obesity are leading to an increase in the number of people suffering from knee pain, a surgeon said. Consultant orthopaedic surgeo...

A fifth of women who undergo major surgery for gynaecological cancer face suffering a further complication, data suggest. Researchers found that 19...

Losing an eye is no big deal.

Thousands of elderly patients are needlessly dying because they are being denied treatment on the grounds of their age, a report has found. Surgica...

I am still conquering my lack of self esteem, goodness only knows how girls of today will turn out. We owe it to them to reverse the trend - let's start the inner beauty revolution.

It's been 20 years since Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson put boob jobs on the map with her bouncing silicon coconuts. Although surgeons claim these operations are rarely dangerous, I'm not convinced. So here are five reasons why you should keep those puppies away from the knife.

British surgeons are appealing for funds so they can complete research which will lead to the first womb transplants in the UK. A team of doctors b...

I think Nigella deserves credit for her attitude to weight and weight loss. She has resolutely resisted the urge to get caught up in unnatural or drastic weight loss attempts. And through a rather unusual set of circumstances she has demonstrated how one can lose weight without resorting to fad diets.

Tax-payers face a bloated bariatric surgery bill from Laura Ripley, a 28-year-old from Hastings whose weight-loss operations have become cause for con...