Become a beauty… or a beast?
Published: 14 February, 2009, 09:10
Many women go under the knife seeking perfection, though they are not often successful. Plastic surgery is booming in Russia – but too many operations are going wrong.
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The trial of a cosmetic specialist accused of causing grave harm to the health of a well-known Russian TV hostess is set to start. In 2004, Gelena Rymarenko allegedly injected an unidentified substance into Oksana Pushkina's face during a beauty treatment
Breast lift surgery (mastopexy) footage. Caution! Viewer discretion is advised. Extremely sensitive visual content inside. The surgical operation is documented in full detail.
04.05.2009, 22:13
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A male patient has shocked doctors at a Moscow clinic by asking them to reduce the size of his penis.
16.04.2009, 08:45
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A young man from the capital of Russia’s Udmurtian Republic was diagnosed with cancer, and had to undergo an operation which revealed the shocking truth – he had no cancer but… a tree growing in his lung.
26.01.2010, 18:45
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Russian emergency workers are apt to use unconventional techniques to save not only people, but animals as well. Rescuing a pregnant horse from a well near Kursk, they had to give it alcohol to prevent it from freezing.
17.04.2009, 09:37
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A Russian woman claims to be both the world's oldest person and the oldest-ever mother. Her passport shows that she’s 125, and she says she last gave birth a mere 46 years ago, at the tender age of 79.
Horror came to a hospital’s staff when a huge man-eating rat, that had attacked two foster babies, fell into their hands. Prosecutors are investigating the beastly incident in one of Moscow region’s children’s hospitals.
The mother of an eleven-year-old girl who died in a St Petersburg hospital has accused doctors of negligence, saying her daughter was misdiagnosed with a cold when in fact she had pneumonia.
A rare case in medical practice has amazed doctors in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg: a woman not only miraculously survived a brain seizure, but also gave birth to a child.
There aren't many people who enjoy being in the dentist's chair. But a Siberian clinician has found an artistic way of making his surgery friendlier by making sculptures from his patients' teeth.
Published: 14 February, 2009, 09:10
Many women go under the knife seeking perfection, though they are not often successful. Plastic surgery is booming in Russia – but too many operations are going wrong.