Professor Swee Tan has made it his life's mission to understand why unsightly strawberry birthmarks appear on kids, and what secrets they hold about other diseases.

Christchurch plastic surgeon Barnaby Nye uses complex facial microsurgery to successfully mitigate the damage done by cancerous tumours.

A 60-year-old pre-school manager from Stokes Valley has made medical history after becoming the first woman to have a bone tumour deep within her skull removed successfully at Hutt Hospital.

Eighteen-year-old Sara Loo's legs and right arm were amputated. She had about 30 operations cutting away and grafting skin to try to beat the meningococcal disease that was killing her.

There have recently been some reports of a possible association between breast implants and lymphoma. These reports reflect only a very small number of cases when compared to numbers of breast implants performed in the world.

Dr Howard Klein responded to an interview Breakfast did last week with a woman who travelled…

Doctors are calling for regulations on unregistered alternative practitioners after a skin cancer treated by a natural health consultant grew to invade a patient's skull.

Selection into the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Surgical Education and Training (SET) Programme commencing in 2010.

The Hutt's annual duck race is going national, and there's also a new option for corporates enabling them to "bling up" their river racer.

Six-year-old Brayden Warnock-Hannon, who was badly burned in an accident last year, is just one of thousands of patients to benefit from the addition of a plastic surgery service at Dunedin Hospital.

When Dominic King was told by his grandparents that at 8 years old he was too young to light fireworks, he reacted like many children his age might - he sat "in a huff" and pulled his hoodie over his head.

Plastic surgeons treating patients with badly burned bodies have long struggled with how to repair the lower layer of skin (the dermis), which cannot regenerate in the same way as the top layer (the epidermis).

Working on average 100 hours a week and on call 24/7, Wong She says he gained a decade's experience in just over a year. It changed the way he viewed burns treatment and he says if Tevita's accident happened today, his treatment would be different and the outcome substantially better.

A year after a rare facial tumour sidelined Liam Todd, the eight-year-old is back on the rugby field with a new jaw and a new lease of life.

An ambitious drive began this week to raise $13.5 million to build a world-class research institute at Hutt Hospital. Research will be aimed at finding new ways of treating people with disfiguring and sometimes life- threatening conditions.

A tiny red mark on Finn Boucher's top lip - spotted by his mother soon after his birth just 10 weeks ago - quickly became a big problem.

They've lost their breasts, but not their voices. JANINE RANKIN spoke to a handful of the estimated hundreds of breast cancer survivors who feel cheated that the promise of a breast reconstruction following life-saving mastectomies has been broken.