Health Reporter · Editorial staff
Malik Bouchard
Tracks new techniques and devices in stomach fat removal and non-surgical body contouring and separates genuine advances from marketing.
2 stories by Malik Bouchard
Advances · 6 min · Malik Bouchard
Muscle Stimulation Devices Are Not Fat Removal: What HIFEM Machines Actually Do
Electromagnetic muscle stimulators are marketed in the same breath as fat reduction, and the two keep getting conflated. What the technology genuinely does, what the studies measured, and how to tell a muscle-toning result from a fat-removal one.
July 8, 2026
Explainer · 6 min · Malik Bouchard
Local, Sedation, or General: How Anesthesia Choices Shape a Liposuction Procedure
Anesthesia is the part of the plan patients ask about least and worry about most. A plain-English look at tumescent local, IV sedation, and general anesthesia: what each feels like, when each makes sense, and the safety questions that matter more than the labels.
July 3, 2026