The Toronto woman's tragic and unnecessary death highlights how dangerous some cosmetic procedures can be and the need for more restrictions on who is allowed to perform them.

Krista Stryland's death is now under investigation; she died after having fat removed from her abdomen at a cosmetic clinic which was performed by a family doctor and not a certified plastic surgeon.

It is unclear at present if actions by the family doctor performing the liposuction contributed to her death.

Becky Kerman is a 40-year-old photographer and mum to two-year-old Amy and 5-year-old Francesca. When on a window-shopping trip in a mall with her two kids, the salesperson at a toy store dropped a remark that stuck in Becky’s mind.

“You have such beautiful grandchildren,” the woman said.

Smaller-framed women reap significant health and quality-of-life benefits from breast reductions that involve the removal of under 500 grams of tissue per breast, according to a first-of-its-kind study from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and the New York University School of Medicine. The finding runs counter to the policies of most U.S. health insurance companies, who typically do not reimburse women for these smaller mammoplasties because insurance companies deem them to be only of cosmetic value.

It is each day more usual to see patients undergoing male to female gender reassignment having more feminine facial profiles as a result of nasal surgery, this can be now confirmed by a report in Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery (JAMA/Archives), September /October issue.  Transsexualism in our days is recognized as a medical condition with an estimated incidence of one in 37 000, it is defined as a condition affecting individuals who strongly believe themselves to have been born into the body of the wrong sex.  There are a number of medical and surgical approaches aimed at aligning the patient's physical appearance with his or her perceived sex.