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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the MemoryShape Breast Implant to increase breast size (augmentation) for use in women at least 22 years old and to rebuild breast tissue (reconstruction) in women of any age. The MemoryShape Breast Implants are manufactured by Mentor Worldwide LLC. The FDA’s approval is based on six years [...]
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A new study of young women with breast cancer has found that most chose to have a mastectomy rather than a surgical procedure that would conserve the breast, researchers will report at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, May 31-June 4, in Chicago. Shoshana Rosenberg, ScD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute [...]
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Philadelphia, Pa. (May 29, 2013) – For women undergoing breast reconstruction after mastectomy, the weight of the tissue flap used affects the risk of an important complication called fat necrosis, reports a study in Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery-Global Open®, the official open-access medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Information on [...]
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“The results were very surprising,” said Ling-Gang Wu, Ph.D., a scientist at NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. “Like many scientists we thought SNAREs were only involved in fusion.”National Institutes of Health researchers used the popular anti-wrinkle agent Botox to discover a new and important role for a group of molecules that nerve [...]
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That tattoo on your arm of a former flame—the one that seemed like a great idea years ago—is kind of embarrassing today. And your spouse is not too crazy about it either. You may not know that FDA considers the inks used in tattoos to be cosmetics, and the agency takes action to protect consumers [...]
The third Aesthetic Plastic Surgery / Anti Aging Medicine: The Next Generation Symposium will be held on July 20-22, 2012 at the Conrad New York, a new luxury complex overlooking the Hudson River adjacent to One World Trade Center tower. This interactive, multidisciplinary conference will feature a world-class faculty presenting advancements in aesthetic surgery, cosmetic medicine and anti-aging [...]
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Ouchless® Needle by BellaNovus Development Company LLC, a medical design and manufacturing company, announces that Dr. Mariano Busso is the latest in a growing list of physicians nationwide to announce the adoption of its use for cosmetic injections. Dr. Busso is on the forefront of this innovative, emerging technology that minimizes localized pain resulting from [...]
Resolutions come in all shapes, sizes and – colors? Banishing brown spots and red blotches through photo facial IPL therapy have made people’s New Year’s to-do lists. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports that, in 2010 alone, U.S. consumers spent more than $216 Million pursuing Intense Pulsed Light therapy. IPL therapy is a minimally-invasive [...]
Today, Solta Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLTM), the pioneer in fractional resurfacing and non-invasive skin tightening and a global market leader in aesthetic treatments, announced the arrival of its groundbreaking Liposonix technology in the United States and Canada. Using advanced high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) technology, Liposonix is a non-surgical permanent fat reduction procedure that has been [...]
According to a recent report by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, nearly 9.5 million cosmetic procedures were carried out in 2010; surgical procedures accounted for 17 percent of total cosmetic procedures. These numbers represent an increase of almost 9 percent in cosmetic surgical procedures. The most common cosmetic surgery procedure of 2010 was [...]