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A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City, Utah returned an indictment on January 11, 2023 charging a Utah plastic surgeon, his medical corporation, and three co-defendants, including his neighbor, with conspiracy to defraud the United States by issuing fake CDC COVID-19 vaccination record cards to fraudulent vaccine card seekers. According to court documents, Dr. Michael Kirk Moore Jr., 58, of Salt Lake County, Utah and his co-defendants, listed below including his neighbor, ran a scheme out of Plastic Surgery Institute of Utah Inc. to defraud the United States and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The defendants…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec 29 2022 Olympia, Washington — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed a federal lawsuit against Allure Esthetic, a major plastic surgery provider in Seattle, and its owner, Dr. Javad Sajan, for falsely and illegally inflating its ratings on online rating platforms such as Yelp and Google. The company intimidated patients into removing negative reviews, and ordered its employees to post fake positive reviews. Ferguson’s lawsuit asserts Allure and its owner broke the law in numerous ways, including by: Requiring patients to sign unlawful non-disclosure agreements, before receiving any treatment, that restrict them from posting truthful reviews about…

(Royal Australasian College of Surgeons) — The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) has continually raised this issue in meetings with the federal and state and territory governments, as well as in written communication, submissions and through the media.  The Australian Medical Council (AMC) accredited training programs for the various surgery subspecialty fields, as well as ophthalmology and obstetrics and gynaecology are five or six years at a minimum, on top of a primary medical degree. In September, RACS met with the Commonwealth Minister for Health & Aged Care to discuss restricting the title surgeon, as well as other issues…

London, England, 8 October 2022—(British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons) In 2018 the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk) dissuaded all its members from performing Brazilian Buttock Lift (BBL) surgery, until more data could be collated. The decision was taken due to the high death rate associated with the procedure. Now, following an extensive four-year review of clinical data, new technology and techniques, BAAPS has published its Gluteal Fat Grafting (GFG) guidelines. Gluteal fat grafting is currently the procedure with the biggest growth rate in plastic surgery worldwide, with an increase of around 20% year-on-year (2)(3). It has become…

On 8 September 2022, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety communication informing patients and providers about reports of squamous cell carcinoma and various lymphomas located in the capsule or scar tissue around breast implants. The risk of squamous cell carcinoma and other lymphomas occurring in the tissue around breast implants appears to be extremely rare. These emerging reports of cancers in scar tissue and capsule are different from Breast Implant Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL). More information on BIA-ALCL can be found on the TGA Breast Implant Hub. At this time, there is not enough information to…