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.
3 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
Advances · 6 min · Malik Bouchard
GLP-1 Drugs Changed the Fat Removal Conversation. Here Is the New Playbook.
Semaglutide and tirzepatide are reshaping who walks into body contouring consultations and what they need when they arrive. What the drugs do well, the loose skin problem they create, and how surgeons now sequence medication and procedures.
July 6, 2026
Advances · 7 min · Malik Bouchard
Advances in body contouring technology
Energy-assisted liposuction and combination platforms are refining results.
April 8, 2026