TOP 100 COSMETIC SITES
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| Plastic Surgeons Face War Injuries From Iraq To Inner-City Violence Born out of war, plastic surgery remains at the forefront of surgical innovation, and advances from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan benefit victims of inner city wars being fought on our streets. At the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Plastic Surgery 2008 conference, Oct. 31 - Nov. medicalnewstoday.com |
Discovery Of Baldness Gene: 1 In 7 Men At Risk Researchers at McGill University, King's College London and GlaxoSmithKline Inc. have identified two genetic variants in caucasians that together produce an astounding sevenfold increase in the risk of male pattern baldness. Their results were published Oct. 12 in the journal Nature Genetics. About a third of all men are affected by male pattern baldness by age 45. medicalnewstoday.com |
What Is Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate? What Causes Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate? Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most frequent birth defects in newborns. About one in 700 infants a year in the United States and one in 600 in the United Kingdom are affected. A cleft is characterized as an opening or a split in the upper lip, the roof of the mouth (palate) or sometimes both. Cleft can have an effect on one side of the lip (unilateral cleft) or both sides of the upper lip (bilateral cleft). medicalnewstoday.com |
Polyacrylamide Hydrogel Shows Promise As Lasting Dermal Filler The investigational injectable filler 2.5% polyacrylamide hydrogel (AquamidR) is as effective and well tolerated as hyaluronic acid (HA, RestylaneR), for the correction of nasolabial folds, according to pivotal data released here at the 2009 American Society of Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS) meeting. In fact, the results showed the polyacrylamide hydrogel was as effective as HA at six months on the widely validated Wrinkle Assessment Scale (WAS), the study's primary endpoint. medicalnewstoday.com |
Own Stem Cells Help Boy With Rare Condition Grow New Cheekbones In a groundbreaking tissue engineering procedure, doctors in the US used the patient's own stem cells to help a 14-year old boy with a rare rare genetic condition that left him with underdeveloped and partly missing cheekbones grow new facial bone. medicalnewstoday.com |