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Category: Healthy Living Up to half of all middle-aged women are going under the knife in a bid to turn back the years, a survey shows.

Sexy forty-somethings like Liz Hurley and Elle Macpherson are making the lives of lesser mortals miserable when they look in the mirror and see sagging boobs, wrinkled faces and flabby tummi...

RAMINGHAM -- Brazilians are devoted to plastic surgery, but they prefer to go under the doctor&rs... Plastic surgery popular wi

RAMINGHAM -- Brazilians are devoted to plastic surgery, but they prefer to go under the doctor’s knife in a hospital, and they usually go back to Brazil to do it, many said yesterday in Framingham.

That is why the majority of local Brazilians were surprised to find out about a Brazilian couple performing illegal plastic surgery in the basement of their Framingham condominium, possib...

iposuction could help you look like a movie star. It might also go horribly wrong. Infectio... A dangerous procedure without pr

iposuction could help you look like a movie star. It might also go horribly wrong.

Infections, puncture wounds to internal organs, skin death and toxicity from anesthesia are just some of the complications of liposuction, a cosmetic procedure that sucks fat out of one’s body, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

That’s why plastic surgeons such as Dr. Robert Gi...

tate officials say they don’t know how often frauds pass themselves off as doctors, because... Fraudulent doctors often u

tate officials say they don’t know how often frauds pass themselves off as doctors, because it usually takes a catastrophe like this week’s death in Framingham to expose unlicensed "physicians."

"We only find out about it when something tragic happens like this," said Emily LaGrassa, spokeswoman for Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley.

Spokesmen for the district a...

RAMINGHAM - Is it any surprise the nation of skin-happy Carnival and thongs at the beach is addic... In-home surgery a culture

RAMINGHAM - Is it any surprise the nation of skin-happy Carnival and thongs at the beach is addicted to plastic surgery?

But local Brazilians said they were shocked to learn the unsafe lengths some compatriots were willing to go to in a basement where unlicensed surgery is suspected in a patient’s death Sunday.

“I’ve never heard of someone doing this in a basement....

young woman’s quest to be “prettier” led her to the Framingham basement where s... Beauty quest turns ugly: D

young woman’s quest to be “prettier” led her to the Framingham basement where she diedSunday during a liposuction performed illegally by a Brazilian couple now facing criminal charges related to the death.

“She was so young and so pretty,” said a woman who met victim Fabiola B. DePaula as both waited for the cosmetic procedure. “She didn’t need s...

RAMINGHAM -- Brazilians are devoted to plastic surgery, but they prefer to go under the doctor&r... Plastic surgery popular wi

RAMINGHAM -- Brazilians are devoted to plastic surgery, but they prefer to go under the doctor’s knife in a hospital, and they usually go back to Brazil to do it, many said yesterday in Framingham.

That is why the majority of local Brazilians were surprised to find out about a Brazilian couple performing illegal plastic surgery in the basement of their Framingham condominium, possi...

iposuction could help you look like a movie star. It might also go horribly wrong. Infect... A dangerous procedure without pr

iposuction could help you look like a movie star. It might also go horribly wrong.

Infections, puncture wounds to internal organs, skin death and toxicity from anesthesia are just some of the complications of liposuction, a cosmetic procedure that sucks fat out of one’s body, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

That’s why plastic surgeons such as Dr. Robert ...

he reason Fabiola DePaula died won't be in the autopsy report. It won't be used as eviden... Spitz: What really killed a beauti

he reason Fabiola DePaula died won't be in the autopsy report.

It won't be used as evidence against Luiz Carlos Ribeiro, accused of performing the liposuction in a Framingham apartment off Bishop Street, or his wife and alleged accomplice, Ana Maria Miranda Ribeiro.

Most sadly of all, it won't stop others from putting themselves at risk.

The reason DePaula's life is over a...