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Who doesn't want to look perfect? And if you don't have it naturally, take the help of your doctor. Going under the knife was once considered a taboo. There was always a hush-hush talk about it. But things have changed and so has the mindset, people are now more comfortable in accepting their flaws and making the necessary correction. Cosmetic surgery is a voluntary medical procedure that is performed on usual body parts with the sole purpose of correction or removing any signs of aging. Cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is a slight alteration of a body part which one is unhappy about.

The majority of women who undergo surgery for suspected ovarian cancer do not actually have the disease, but these unnecessary surgeries could soon be reduced thanks to a novel blood test developed by a Swedish research team.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a statement warning healthcare providers about potential complications in patients fitted with both programmable cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt systems and certain magnetic hearing devices.

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland are developing smart sensors which can monitor the healing progress of a wound, eliminating the need to look underneath a bandage.

US-based medical diagnostics maker T2 Biosystems has signed six new agreements for the exclusive distribution of its diagnostic technologies in Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa.

Apple has joined forces with Eli Lilly and Evidation Health on a new feasibility study to detect evidence of brain decline with data from personal digital devices. The research has revealed that these devices may help in the identification of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease dementia.

An experimental device made from layered filter paper is helping Rice University bioengineers study calcifying heart diseases. The filter paper is structured in a way that mimics the layering of aortic heart valves, recreating the means by which cells spread through cardiac tissue in a laboratory setting. It may not look much like a heart valve, but in practice it simulates the proliferation process in the same way.

Researchers at Stanford University in the US have developed new sensors that can be adhered to the skin for wireless monitoring of health. The sensors are designed to identify the physiological signals that the skin emanates, such as pulse. These readings will be wirelessly transmitted to a receiver clipped onto clothing. The sensor and receiver system has been named BodyNet.

Siemens Healthineers has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all fully diluted shares of US-based Corindus Vascular Robotics. The deal is valued at $4.28 per share in cash or $1.1bn in total. Corindus develops, produces and sells robotic systems for minimally invasive procedures, while Siemens' products use quality imaging before and during medical interventions to make minimally invasive treatment possible.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Germany and the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands have discovered new blood biomarkers that could indicate a mortality risk in elderly people.

UK-based online therapy provider Ieso Digital Health has applied deep learning to provide new insights into which aspects of psychotherapy are the most effective.

Seven new 'data hubs' are set to revolutionise medical research across Britain, making the medical histories of millions of NHS patients available to doctors, scientists and academics.

Abbott and Sanofi are partnering to integrate their glucose sensing and insulin delivery technologies, with ambitions to simplify how people with diabetes manage their condition.

The UK government has pledged £133m to healthcare innovation funding, which will help boost the country's innovations in medical imaging and artificial intelligence (AI), among other areas.

Liquid biopsy, a minimally invasive cancer diagnostic tool, has gained momentum in the last five years due to its advantages over the archaic painful procedure of solid tumour biopsy.

Immuno-Transcriptomics firm Novigenix has received positive results from its early colon cancer detection blood test at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2019.

MedRhythms, a US-based digital therapeutics company, has launched its five-site randomised controlled trial (RCT) at rehabilitation hospitals and research centres to examine a post-stroke walking rehabilitation device.

Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania have found that liquid biopsy can help to predict the prognosis of glioblastoma(GBM), the most aggressive and common brain cancer in adults.