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Three Toronto physicians may be forced to open their doors to Ontario's medical regulatory body if an application to the court by the College of Physicians and Surgeons is successful. The court order would allow the college to send inspectors into the private clinics of the physicians to examine their plastic surgical practices, by questioning the doctors and observing them perform cosmetic surgery procedures.

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Seven people, including a 61 year old British plastic surgeon, have been committed for trial in Dubai, following the death of a 27 year old housewife who was undergoing a liposuction procedure in the United Arab Emirates.

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In a move that has been criticized by professional surgical bodies, German lawmakers are proposing a ban on plastic surgery for children and adolescents.

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A Chinese school has attracted criticism after telling more than 30 of its final year students to undergo cosmetic surgery before they graduated.

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The Missouri based company Fig, known previosuly as Advanced Lipo Dissolved has ceased operations and is expected to file for bankruptcy protection from its creditors.

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A doctor who allegedly posed as a plastic surgeon and injured unsuspecting patients in dozens of botched liposuction, facelift and breast implant procedures has been arrested in Mexico.

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Jet Nightclub in Las Vegas is courting controversy for the second year in a row by staging a contest where the winning contestant will receive $5,000 to spend on breast augmentation surgery.

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A group of doctors, advertising themselves as cosmetic surgeons, are offering discounted liposuction procedures to members of the public willing to have the procedure conducted by trainees. The advertisement, has drawn criticism from the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, who issued a warning about the possible dangers of volunteering to be the subject of training procedures.

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A doctor in Houston, Texas, whose trial last month ended in a misstated conviction, will stand trial again on charges that she bought a cheap Botox substitute and injected it into unsuspecting patients.

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New Jersey police are investigating the death of a 41 year old woman, who died, apparently after undergoing cosmetic surgery at a private residence.

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