| 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®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). medicalnewstoday.com |
Divorce, Antidepressants, Or Weight Gain/Loss Can Add Years To Your Face Your mother's wrinkles -- or lack there of, may not be the best predictor of how you'll age. In fact, a new study claims just the opposite. The study, involving identical twins, suggests that despite genetic make-up, certain environmental factors can add years to a person's perceived age. medicalnewstoday.com |
RHAMM Holds Promise For The Elimination Of Wrinkles And Skin Rejuvenation Without Surgery Or Neurotoxin Injections Hollywood stars of a certain age take note: Research at Berkeley Lab suggests that a protein linked to the spread of several major human cancers may also hold great potential for the elimination of wrinkles and the rejuvenation of the skin. If this promise bears fruit, controlling concentrations of the RHAMM protein could one day replace surgical procedures or injections with neurotoxins that carry such unpleasant side-effects as muscle paralysis and loss of facial expressions. medicalnewstoday.com |
World-Renowned Plastic Surgeons Share Knowledge And Experience For the first time, thought and opinion leaders from two of the world's leading centers of aesthetic surgery, Brazil and the United States, will be meeting to share scientific updates, procedural knowledge and clinical information at the inaugural American-Brazilian Aesthetic Meeting. medicalnewstoday.com |
High Heels? They Just Don’t Fit Bobbi Brown, the founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, says she wants to hire people who bring “energy, creativity and newness.” nytimes.com |