| Buying Face Cream? Grab a Glossary There is an increase in beauty marketing that employs science buzzwords whose meaning may be lost on consumers. nytimes.com |
Branded Surgery Is Not Always The "Quick Fix" It Is Advertised To Be Have you seen the commercial for in-office procedures that will make your face wrinkle-free or sculpt your stomach, with no downtime and no scars? Lifestyle Lift, Lunchtime Lift, Thread-Tox, and Smart-Lipo, are just a few of the brand-name surgical procedures being marketed to the public as a cosmetic quick fix with a clever name. medicalnewstoday.com |
New Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Stent From Cook Medical Could Greatly Reduce Need For Leg Amputations And Bypass Surgery For European Patients In a breakthrough development that could dramatically reduce the number of leg amputations and painful bypass graft surgeries performed annually on European patients, a first-of-its kind drug-eluting stent for a widespread form of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is now available to physicians throughout the European Union. medicalnewstoday.com |
New Law Requires Hospitals To Inform Breast Cancer Patients Of Breast Reconstruction Options While breast reconstruction after a mastectomy is covered by insurers in New York, many poor, minority, and less educated women do not seek out the procedure. Now, NY Gov. David A. Paterson has signed into law a bill that is aimed at reversing this trend... mnt.to |
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Shows Promise For Patients Too Sick For Conventional Surgery Just released data from a clinical trial shows promise for a new minimally invasive treatment option for patients with severe aortic stenosis who are too sick for traditional forms of open-heart surgery. As compared to standard medical therapy, the new procedure, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), significantly reduced mortality rates in patients who received the new valve... mnt.to |