Plastic surgery clinics to be regulated under new licensing plan
The new laws will give Hiqa more powers to investigate both public and private hospitals.
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The new laws will give Hiqa more powers to investigate both public and private hospitals.
The one-day event would have featured live surgery demonstrations.
28% of consumers surveyed said they save less than €100 every month.
In Iran’s largest cities it is easy to spot women — but also men — with bandages on their noses, flaunting the fact they recently went under the knife.
But what else are we looking up?
The Oireachtas Health Committee has been told the industry is largely unregulated here.
You read that right.
The warning comes after a woman was fined €6,000 for performing Botox treatments on customers at her salon.
Mary Concepta Burke did not have a prescription to sell Dysport which is a competitor to Botox.
Are YOU a bit saggy down there?
Around 250 clinics in Istanbul alone are vying for clients who want a more virile, bewhiskered look in Turkey.
The plastic surgery clinic refused an invitation to attend a meeting of the committee on the PIP breast implant scandal.
Oireachtas Committee hears that around 1,550 women received the potentially faulty implants in Ireland.
Irish Medicines Board to give latest news on status of PIP implants with which at least 1,500 Irish women were fitted.
More patients could be affected on the back of this new information, said the Irish Medicines Board.
James Reilly is working on legislation which will provide for mandatory licencing of health providers, including cosmetic surgeries.
The British surgeons are calling for a number of changes to take place to bring in tighter controls in the cosmetic surgery sector, following a recent breast implants scandal.
Frenchman Jean Claude Mas is wanted in Costa Rica for “life and health” offences.
Tens of thousands of women in Britain and France with low-grade silicon implants have been advised to have them removed over concerns they could leak.
A young British woman has died following a cosmetic procedure in a US hotel – which detectives believe was arranged over the internet.
Former pop star indicates in new interview with Vogue magazine that the breast enhancement she previously denied did take place – but is now removed.