| Comparing Surgeon And Patient Health Preferences Surgery comes with great expectations and great risks for complications. Patients and their surgeons each may have preferences for outcomes after surgery. But are their preferences the same or do they differ? A recent study, "A comparison of physician and patient time tradeoffs for postoperative hip outcomes", published in Value in Health, looks at this issue. medicalnewstoday.com |
US Surgeons Carry Out Near Total Face Transplant The first near total face transplant to be carried out in the United States took place at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio in a 22-hour procedure where a multidisciplinary team of doctors and surgeons replaced 80 per cent of a trauma patient's face. In the procedure, which took place within the last two weeks, the surgeons essentially replaced nearly the entire face of a woman who had suffered severe trauma: she was unable to smile, eat, talk, smell or breathe by herself. medicalnewstoday.com |
Cosmetic Enhancement Center Of New England Acquires New "Cutting Edge" Facial Rejuvenation Laser Technology; Total FX UltraPulse By Lumenis The Cosmetic Enhancement Center of New England announced that they have added one of the latest innovations in cosmetic treatment technologies to their clinic, the Lumenis® UltraPulse CO2 fractional laser. medicalnewstoday.com |
Geisinger Physician To Present At National Convention Alexander P. Moya, M.D., Director of the Center for Weight Loss Body Contouring and Assistant Director of the Geisinger Center for Aesthetics and Cosmetic Surgery at Geisinger Medical Center (GMC), will deliver an interactive video presentation on his corset trunkplasty surgery in April 2010... mnt.to |
Therapeutic Benefits Of Bariatric Surgery On Diabetes Translate Into Significant Economic Benefits New data presented at Obesity 2010, the 28th annual scientific meeting of The Obesity Society, find that bariatric surgery is associated with reduced healthcare costs for diabetes patients who are morbidly obese. The study, conducted by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), and Analysis Group, Inc... mnt.to |