Health: Jiffy Boobs.(one-hour breast augmentation)(Brief article)

Byline: Susanna Schrobsdorff

The headlines were irresistible: LUNCH-BREAK BOOB JOBS HEADED TO EUROPE. According to some news outlets that carried the story, doctors would be using women's own belly fat for a one-hour breast-augmentation procedure that could be available as early as next year. But if you think getting a flatter stomach and bigger cup size in the time it takes to eat a sandwich sounds too good to be true, you're right. So let us set the record straight: there's no such thing as the one-hour boob job--unless you count some of the architectural wonders now being sold at Victoria's Secret.

So how did the news-that's-not get such, um, pickup? Well, there is a globule of truth to the story, in that a small San Diego-based biotech company called Cytori Therapeutics has developed a system that uses the stem cells in fat to make fat grafts more viable. And that's important if you're ...