A leg bypass surgery may be necessary if fatty deposits have clogged a blood vessel, impeding blood flow through the leg. During this surgery, doctors will create a new pathway for blood to travel. If ...

His height was his Achilles heel. A Colombian man spent $175,000 to undergo the “most painful surgery ever” to ditch his 5-foot-8 frame and reach new heights. Instagram star Yeferson Cossio, 29, ...

LAS VEGAS — Late at night, on long drives around his Indiana hometown, Eli Mattern would ask God why he made the teenager the way he was. The high schooler’s 5-foot-7 stature — 2 inches below the ...

Theresia Fischer longed for a leg up in love. So, the model shelled out more than $162,000 on “Frankenstein” leg-lengthening surgeries to become more attractive to her now ex-husband. “[He said] ‘If ...

It is an online world that few would discover unless they were actively seeking it. Across social media and encrypted chats lies a community that wants a procedure it fears is heavily stigmatised in ...