Archive for the ‘Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery’ Category
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
What would you do if half your face was ripped off by an IED (improvised explosive device); if you were born with a genetic condition that distorts your appearance and complicates life's simplest tasks; if, at age nine, your face was burned off; or, if you were diagnosed with breast cancer twice? Raising the white flag comes to mind.
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Imagine not having the ability to return the smile of a loved one or being too embarrassed by your mouth's appearance to display a smile. At the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons (ASMS) Plastic Surgery 2008 conference, Oct. 31 - Nov.
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Born out of war, plastic surgery remains at the forefront of surgical innovation, and advances from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan benefit victims of inner city wars being fought on our streets. At the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Plastic Surgery 2008 conference, Oct. 31 - Nov.
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Breast augmentation, lift, combination lift/augmentation and reduction achieve high satisfaction rates; enhance self-esteem and quality of life; and 99 percent of women would have their surgery again, according to a first-of-its-kind study to be presented at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Plastic Surgery 2008 conference, Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, in Chicago.
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Born out of war, plastic surgery remains at the forefront of surgical innovation, and advances from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan benefit victims of inner city wars being fought on our streets. At the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Plastic Surgery 2008 conference, Oct. 31 - Nov.
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Mentor Corporation (NYSE:MNT), a leading supplier of medical products for the global aesthetic market, today announced completion of the first of three Phase 3 clinical trials with its purified botulinum Type A neurotoxin (PurTox®) for the reduction of glabellar rhytides (frown lines). This newly completed study involved 400 subjects at ten investigational sites in the United States.
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Cytori Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CYTX) received U.S. Patent No. 7,429,488 (the '488 patent), which broadly protects the Company's Celution® System-based methods of generating adipose tissue-derived stem and regenerative cell-enhanced fat grafts.
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Harley Medical Group, the UK's largest cosmetic surgery provider, has found that a growing number of patients are funding their cosmetic surgery procedures by working a second job or putting in extra hours due to the current poor economic climate.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
From innovative facial reanimation procedures that restore patients' ability to smile to new data suggesting it may be safe and effective to use fat injections to enhance breast reconstruction results, the latest research, procedures, and technologies will be presented at Plastic Surgery 2008, the annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The meeting, held Oct.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
New GMC guidance that warns GPs to prescribe Botox to named patients only is common sense and errs appropriately on the side of caution, says the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS) today (Wednesday, 24 September 2008).
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