California (GN): Angelina Jolie’s surgeon has revealed that she was back to work four days after her double mastectomy. Dr Kristi Funk - who operated on the Salt star at the Pink Lotus Breast Center - said the she was already thinking about her next movie project before the post-op tubes were ...

KARACHI:- Pakistan's most successful pace bowler in the current team Umar Gul has had a successful knee surgery in Australia. An official source in the Pakistan Cricket Board said that Dr David Young, a well-known orthopaedic surgeon who has a lot of experience in treating sportsmen, had performed ...

KARACHI:-Pakistan's experienced pace bowler, Umar Gul's departure for Australia to undergo surgery on his injured knee has been delayed due to visa problems. The delay in his departure for Australia has dimmed chances of Gul recovering in time for the tour to Zimbabwe in July. Sources close to the ...

LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson had levels of drugs in his body consistent with someone undergoing major surgery on the day he died in 2009, a coroner’s expert said.The 50-year-old died from an overdose of the anesthetic propofol, given by his doctor Conrad Murray to help the singer with chronic ...

Tokyo   DM - A Japanese woman has undergone a startling physical transformation that has so far involved more than 30 cosmetic procedures at a cost of 10 million yen or $102,000.The lady, a model known as Vanilla Chamu, has said she intends to keep having surgeries until she has achieved her ...

SYDNEY : Australian pace bowler James Pattinson will have abdominal surgery on Friday, sidelining him from playing in the IPL but not the Ashes, Cricket Australia said Thursday. CA said Pattinson would have surgery for a "non-cricket related medical condition", putting him out of action for a ...

KARACHI - Saeed Ajmal, the Pakistan offspinner, has been suffering from pain in his lower abdomen and suspects he has a hernia. He is resting at the moment, missing the ongoing Faysal Bank Super Eight T 20 Cup in Lahore, and is expected to have surgery before the ODI series in Scotland in May."I ...

LAHORE - The cochlear implant surgery for hearing impaired persons is going to start for the first time in Pakistan and five persons will be operated at a local hospital in Defense Society on Wednesday (today), says a press release.A Korean expert Dr Daniel Lee will conduct these surgeries. ...

SADIQABAD - The Punjab Population Welfare Department has set up surgery camps which will remain functional till March 24 for women across Rahim Yar Khan district.District Officer (Health) Dr Ghulam Rabbani praised the establishment of camps for birth control surgery in the district, saying that ...

IT'S a cosmetic surgery bill which would make even the most vain blush. Junior the Bloodhound, who has just added a tummy tuck to last year's facelift, has run up a surgeon's bill totalling more than £10,000 in just two years.  But this is no pursuit of the perfect looks for the dead ...

CARACAS  - Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez travels to Cuba on Friday for treatment of what he says is likely a malignant tumor as the leftist president faces a renewed cancer scare ahead of a tough reelection battle. “Nobody can say right now that it is another malignant tumor ... (but) ...

JOHANNESBURG  - An orphaned South African rhinoceros blinded by poachers who hit it on the head in the same attack that killed its mother has regained its vision after cataract surgery, its owners said Monday.Roccy the rhino underwent the surgery on January 3 in the University of ...

53-year-old Michelle Pfeiffer admits she would consider having a little nip-and-tuck if she felt she needed it but has blasted people who go too far claiming they make her uncomfortable. Im all for a little something here and there - fine, she said. It doesnt matter to me if people have plastic ...

A REVOLUTIONARY new form of surgery that allows brain tumours to be removed without making a single incision is set to transform the field of medicine. Traditionally, such operations involved surgeons opening the skull and delving downwards. Alternatively, parts of the brain were reached via large ...

KARACHI (Agencies) - M Hafeez, Pakistans opening batsman, has been ruled out of the domestic Faysal Bank T20 competition because of a cyst on his chest that requires surgery. The timing of the surgery has been decided with an eye on Pakistans upcoming international commitments. Its a minor surgery, ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - New surgical procedures are offering relief from debilitating migraine headaches, research shows. The new surgical techniques were inspired by an unexpected side effect to facial plastic surgery - specifically, a forehead rejuvenation procedure. The report appears in the ...

MUMBAI - Dr Mike Solomons, whose opinion was sought for Imran Tahir's recent injury, has put the ball in South African team management. The hand-specialist was consulted by the team management after Pakistani-born, Tahir sustained a fracture to his left thumb. "I have examined the reports sent by ...

MUMBAI - Former Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is 'almost out of the World Cup squad due to his knee injury and his Australian surgeon, Dr. David Young advised him not to undergo early operation at this stage. Speaking exclusively over his mobile from US, where he is on a business trip ...

HOFFENHEIM (Germany) (AFP) Hoffenheims Nigeria international Chinedu Obasi is set for surgery on an injured shinbone which will keep him sidelined until next year. Tests have confirmed that an operation is necessary to enable him to return to train and play without feeling any pain, the Bundesliga ...

EVIL mother made infant son have needless surgery to claim 130,000 in benefits and con celebrities An 'evil and cruel mother caused her young son to undergo needless surgery and treatment at three hospitals during a six-year charade that he was seriously ill. The woman conned the Royal Family and ...

REALITY TV star Kim Kardashian, whose step father Bruce Jenner recently had his second facelift, has revealed that one day she will definitely go under the knife. I am down for it, Us magazine quoted her as saying in Santa Monica, California. One day I will definitely get it, she added. Recently, ...

AUDRINA Patridge has laughed off rumours suggesting that shes gone under the knife to achieve slimmer facial features, insisting shes 'just losing baby fat. The 23-year-old is set to launch her own reality show, which will follow Audrinas life on the professional as well as personal front. ...

KARACHI - The first ever open heart surgery was successfully performed by doctors on one Naseem Ansari at Karachi Institute of Heart Disease (KIHD) and proved successful. City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal Monday met the patient during his visit to the hospital and presented him bouquet. Talking to the ...

PARIS (AFP) - In a ground-breaking advance, French neurosurgeons on Friday said they had successfully treated brain tumours through ultra-keyhole surgery, using a tiny fibre-optic laser to destroy cancerous cells. Alexandre Carpentier of the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris said the exploit ...

KARACHI - The first open-heart surgery of heart tumour of a four-month-old girl infant in south Asia successfully operated at Dr Ziauddin Hospital, North Nazimabad, Karachi by consultant surgeon Dr Tariq M Sherani. The open-heart surgery of such a small child is reported for the first time in ...

A teenager with heart problems has become one of the first patients in Britain to have heart surgery through his thigh. Jack Burd, 17, was born with a heart defect and had already endured open heart surgery three times. This time surgeons used a high-tech procedure to thread a new heart valve ...