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What is Gamma Knife Radiosurgery?

Gamma knife radiosurgery is a precise, noninvasive and effective radiation therapy procedure which has been proven highly effective in the treatment of certain malignant and benign brain tumors, arteriovenous malformations and trigeminal neuralgia. In addition to these conditions, Gamma Knife treatments for Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and intractable pain are also promising according to research results. 

According to the statistics shared by WHO, worldwide obesity has just about tripled since 1975. More than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight in 2016. Over 650 million of these were obese.

Slim Lipo is a laser liposuction procedure that is developed to reduce the side effects and to ease recovery time compared with traditional liposuction. The system basically uses laser technology to liquefy the excess fat and tighten the skin in specific areas of the body such as stomach, hips, thighs, flanks, buttocks, arms, neck and chin. Because the procedure is accepted safer than standard liposuction plastic surgery, it provides less pain and excellent patients results. Generally, laser liposuctions use a laser to melt away fat under the skin, because of this it is acknowledged as a minimal invasive cosmetic procedure. 

Plastic surgery is a domain that constantly changes. Pioneer treatments are implemented, and new techniques of popular aesthetic surgeries are proposed. Millions of people every year decide to have cosmetic surgery, and even more, go for nonsurgical aesthetic operations.

Facial hair transplant has become more popular in recent years with especially the increasingly successful and natural results of beard hair transplantation. Today, there are various kinds of facial hair transplant surgery available. When patients are looking for a beard, mustache or sideburn hair transplant surgery, they usually prefer to thicken their existing facial hair or to construct a completely new beard, mustache or sideburns from scratch when they cannot be grown naturally.

IVF is an abbreviation for 'in vitro fertilization'. The Latin term "in vitro” literally means "in glass". IVF is the process of fertilization by manually combining surgically retrieved eggs and a sperm sample in a laboratory. After 2–5 days, the fertilized embryo(s) are transferred into the uterus. 

Hair loss is becoming a more frequent problem for both men and women. Although it is normal to lose about 50-100 hairs every day, if this number increases and you see bald patches or lots of thinning on your hair, you may be in the process hair loss. There are many causes of hair loss such as genetic reasons, some hormonal diseases, medical treatments or even stress. 

Kidneys are twin organs positioned in the lower abdomen. As much as one-third of all the blood pumped by the heart passes into the kidneys to be filtered before traveling to the rest of the body's tissues. While you can live with only one functioning kidney, the loss of both kidneys leads to a rapid accumulation of waste within a few days.

Radiation therapy, also known as radiotherapy is a common cancer treatment in which high doses of radiation are used to destroy cancer cells and shrink tumors by damaging their DNA. Low doses of the same radiation are used to see inside your body such as your teeth or broken bones through X-ray imaging. Radiation therapy treatment may be paired with chemotherapy to achieve better results in cancer treatment.

Bone marrow transplant also called hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a life-saving procedure performed on patients with leukemia and other serious diseases affecting blood cells. Bone marrow is the soft, flexible connective tissue within bone cavities. The primary function of bone marrow is to produce blood cells and to store fat.