| 65-Year Old Gunshot Victim Received Complex Procedure To Avoid Life-Threatening Ulcers In what is believed to be the first time in the United States, a nerve transfer was performed on a paraplegic to relieve life-threatening pressure ulcers - a common side effect associated with wheelchair-bound patients. The surgery took place on November 11, 2008, at Monmouth County Medical Center, and was performed by a team of medical professionals led by Dr. Andrew Elkwood, M.D. of the Plastic Surgery Center in Shrewsbury, NJ. medicalnewstoday.com |
A Thing of Beauty, and It’s Free Frantic people heeded the call of free makeup at Bloomingdale’s on Tuesday, but not as many as one might expect. nytimes.com |
Dermatologists Now Offer Non Invasive Skin Tightening The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Dermatology is offering a new non-surgical, needle-free skin-tightening procedure that doctors say smoothes wrinkles, firms up baggy or loose skin and improves body contours. The outpatient cosmetic procedure is performed with Thermage®, a device that contours skin all over the body face, eyelids, neck, abdomen, arms, legs and more using focused radio waves. medicalnewstoday.com |
Shiseido Buys Manufacturer of Cosmetics Shiseido will gain a major player in the United States that sells products in retail stores like Sephora, its own boutiques and directly to customers. nytimes.com |
Patients Find Computer Imaging Before Rhinoplasty Moderately Accurate, Useful Computer imaging to predict how patients will look following plastic surgery involving the nose appears to be moderately accurate, and patients value its inclusion in the preoperative consultation, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals... mnt.to |