Surgery loses out to medicines - The world cosmetic skin treatment market will experience growth of between 5-10% this year in a market worth $7bn in 2008. Cosmetic surgery itself, however, will decline by 10-20% this year, according to figures supplied by Imcas, the sector's global monitoring organisation, which confirms a trend that began three years ago. Surgery is losing out to medical treatments, which are expected to increase by 13% by 2012. At the top of the three most popular medical...