NEW YORK (WABC) -- The New York City Health Department is cautioning New Yorkers against "lipotourism" to the Dominican Republic. The Health Department announced it identified 10 cases of ...

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A Bronx woman shared her horror story after undergoing a cosmetic surgery in the Dominican Republic that left her with a skin infection that could have killed her. According to the New York Daily News ...

An outburst of bacterial infection was noted in people undergoing tattoo practice. The premixed bottle of gray ink in the tattoo parlors were seen to be infected with Mycobacterium chelenae. An ...

Linda McFaline went to the Dominican Republic for cosmetic surgery and came back with an infection that could have killed her — and she’s not alone, according to the Health Department. The department ...

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Mycobacterium abscessus is a fast-growing, pathogenic mycobacteria that can cause lung infections, and people who have ...

Researchers Véronique Dartois, Ph.D., and Thomas Dick, Ph.D., of the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation in Nutley, N.J. The pair work with laboratory samples in developing their ...