In today's celebrity culture, where looks are becoming more and more central to a person’s confidence, the desire to fit into a set mould is ever increasing. But how far will the beauty and medical industries go to fulfil the demands of such an image conscious public?  Sinem Ayman highlights how fears have been raised about the origins of collagen for implants.

Over 98 per cent of circumcised men report the same levels of sexual satisfaction and performance as uncircumscribed men, according to an article published in BJU International.

Founded in 1992 by James Partridge, Changing faces is the UK's charity providing emotional and practical support to people with disfigurements. It was established after James suffered severe burns in a car accident, aged just eighteen. As he told JuniorDr's Michelle Connolly it was a life-changing event that forced him to rethink everyday life and drastically reconsider things he had previously taken for granted.

Most people, with the exception of fishermen and extreme animal lovers, will be disgusted by the thought of maggots crawling onto their skin. You can instantaneously conjure up an image of a rotting body plagued with flesh-sucking creepy crawlies. In fact, myiasis is the very term given to the ‘infestation of live humans and animals with dipterous larvae which feed on the host’s dead or living tissue, liquid body substances or ingested food’.