| Skin Flaps Deliver Cancer Fighting Therapy, ASPS Study Reveals Using gene therapy, plastic surgeons have delivered cancer fighting proteins through skin flaps placed on cancerous tumors on rats with a 79 percent reduction in tumor volume, according to a study in the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery(R), the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). medicalnewstoday.com |
Plastic Surgery Experts Available To Comment On Face Transplant Surgery Facial transplantation is plastic surgery. In fact, Maria Siemionow, MD, who performed this country's first face transplant at the Cleveland Clinic recently, is a reconstructive plastic surgeon. Facial transplantation plastic surgery offers great hope for those who suffer from severe facial disfigurement. medicalnewstoday.com |
Avon to Trim Jobs The cosmetics company expected 2009 to be a rough year, as consumers cut spending. nytimes.com |
In New Jersey, Cosmetic Surgery Tax Reaped Funds Far Below Projections Bloomberg: "A tax on breast enhancements and other cosmetic care, similar to one proposed in the U.S. Senate's health-overhaul legislation, doesn't generate even a third of the $30 million a year originally projected for it in New Jersey, the only state with such a levy... mnt.to |
Follow That Rabbit to the Makeup Aisle Makeup aficionados will especially appreciate the Queen of Heartâs vivid blue lids and heart-shaped lips, and the Mad Hatterâs green eyes, ringed with azure, fuchsia and brick-red eye shadows and what looks to be white mascara. nytimes.com |