| FDA Grants Approval To Evera Medical's FulFil Lip IDE Application Evera Medical announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted conditional approval of the Company's investigational device exemption (IDE) application for its FulFil Lip cosmetic augmentation implant. This approval allows Evera Medical to assess the safety and effectiveness of the FulFil Lip implant in patients undergoing aesthetic lip enhancement. medicalnewstoday.com |
European Congress On Anti-Aging & Aesthetic Medicine Comes To Mainz! The 2nd annual European Congress on Anti-Aging & Aesthetic Medicine (ECAAAM) will take place at the Congress Centre, Mainz, near Frankfurt, 15-17 October 2009. Mainz has strong ties with the medical community, with a large medical student population and a University hospital with over 50 specialised departments. medicalnewstoday.com |
Shetland Seaweed For Safer Hair Dyes And Cosmetics Scientists have launched a project to make hair dye out of seaweed from around the Shetland Islands. Scientists at the University of Leeds are planning to extract chemical compounds from different species of seaweed and use them to develop a new range of hair dyes. The naturally sourced compounds will be used by scientists as substitutes for synthetic ingredients that can be found in most hair dyes currently on the market. medicalnewstoday.com |
Covidien Expands V-Loc(TM) Family Of Absorbable Wound Closure Devices For Knotless Tissue Repair Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced the global launch of the V-Loc(TM) 90 device, expanding its family of V-Loc(TM) absorbable wound closure devices. This latest addition to Covidien's knotless wound closure product line received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on May 11, 2010... mnt.to |
Alternative Surgeries For California Women Suffering From Fibroids The Reproductive Science Center of the San Francisco Bay Area (RSC) is hoping to recruit 150 women suffering from uterine fibroids, benign tumors that can cause extreme pain and infertility. Fibroids are non-cancerous tumors or growths in the wall of the uterus. The cause of uterine fibroid tumors is unknown. Fifty percent of all women develop these tumors during their lifetime... mnt.to |