A well-known Chinese surgeon performed here on Thursday a live laparoscopic and robotic surgery which received applause from the attendees at the European congress of "Challenges in Laparoscopy and Robotics."
The plastic-surgery tourism boom in Korea appears to be waning with the number of Chinese customers shrinking from its peak of over 79,000 in 2014.
Chinese startup Yuemei.com, a leading online marketplace for cosmetic surgery, announced on Thursday it will open ten brick-and-mortar surgery centers by 2017.
Substandard medical gas caused serious eye injuries to dozens of patients undergoing eye surgery at Peking University Third Hospital, the hospital said on Thursday.
The surgery involved removing three-fourths of his stomach and reshaping what was left into a tube to "prevent him from eating too much," the Medical Daily reported in October.
Wang Jing is haunted by her reflection: the looking glass frames a crooked mouth and numb, motionless cheeks.
Weight loss surgery could reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by around 80 percent in obese people, according to a new research published Monday in the British medical journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
Cosmetic surgery is hot among Chinese students as the summer holiday commences, but the plastic trend is also spurring controversy due to its risks.
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez will undergo surgery Tuesday at Buenos Aires' Fundacion Favaloro Hospital, after doctors found a brain hematoma, said a statement issued by the hospital on Monday.
A growing number of young Chinese are undergoing plastic surgery during their summer vacations.
The recovery of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will be "complex and difficult" following a fourth round of cancer surgery, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday.