Moob reduction surgery skyrocketing

The BBC has posted a series of articles about the increasing prevalence of men undergoing breast reduction surgery.

Surgeons carried out 581 breast reductions, compared to 323 the previous year....

Consultant plastic surgeon Rajiv Grover said that while the problem of so-called "man-boobs" - or "gynaecomastia" in official language - was not a new one, it had been thrust into prominence by media coverage.  "Many men are feeling the pressure from men's magazines that weren't even being published five or six years ago."

"In addition, they are just realising that they can get something done about it."

Proponents of universal health care need to ponder how to factor something like this into the equation.

More at the link and at this one and this one.