Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson and orthopedic specialty device maker Syntheshave agreed to a merger deal, worth $21.3 billion (USD) Synthes, Inc., founded in Switzerland, has long been a leader in the fields of orthopedic trauma and craniofacial surgery. They manufacture specialized bone-holding plates, screws and OR equipment, and have always been very active in clinical education efforts. […]
It’s nearly time for the annual Aesthetic Society meeting! This year, it’s being held in Boston, which is familiar ground to me! Plastic Surgeons from around the world will be there, discussing all the latest trends, hot topics, and new innovative devices and procedures. It’s the biggest meeting of the year for aesthetic plastic surgeons. […]
File this under “medical tourism” meets “back-room procedures”. Another sad story about discount cosmetic surgery in a foreign country, this time with a twist…**** Hector Cabral of New York has been indicted for illegally performing cosmetic procedures on several women, leaving some of them permanently disfigured. He was charged with 10 counts of unauthorized practice […]
Recently, I saw an TV ad for a local personal injury attorney that really disturbed me. In it, he promised his clients that he would fight to get them the largest settlement possible, and boasted of his prowess in doing so.He didn’t talk about finding the truth. He didn’t refer to doing the best possible […]
Here is another one from the “Believe It or Not” Files, courtesy of the Austriantimeswebsite. Sounds like the Russian cat had a blepharoplasty and canthopexy…or would that be a “cat-o-pexy”? Crazy!! ********** Fury over cat’s plastic surgery Animal rights activists have criticised a “cruel” cat owner who put her pedigree puss through plastic surgery so she […]
The pieces of the puzzle regarding fat grafting for breast reconstruction and breast enhancement keep coming in, a little at a time. Here is a press release from ASPS, which summarizes a recent French study on mammography after the micro-droplet method of fat transfer to the breast, which was published in the recent issue of PRS. […]
Thanks to Ramona Bates, MD (blog link here) and StreetAnatomy.com for bringing this fabulously eye-catching poster about Breast Self-Examination (BSE) to my attention.
Linda Lu, a 21-year-old Valencia College student, received the Southeast’s first hand transplant March 12th at Emory University, in Atlanta. The operation was detailed in a press conference earlier this week. She lost her left hand at age 1 due to Kawasaki disease, a vascular condition that can restrict blood flow to extremities, resulting in […]
Here is a story that is certainly offbeat – a beauty-pageant obsessed mom is injecting her 8 year old daughter with Botox & fillers (that she buys online) with the hopes of making her a famous star. (link) According to the story: Kerry, 34, buys botox and fillers online and injects them into her daughter’s […]
On friday, the FDA approved a new drug, called Yervoy, that should help some people with very advanced cases of melanoma. The drug works in an interesting way – by revving up the body’s own immune system to fight the melanoma tumors. When melanomas are detected early – as a mole “gone bad” – they can […]
