Surgeons Rebuild Iraq War Veteran's Entire Nose Using His Own Body Parts
Technology, developed for surgery after nasal cancers, used in multiple reconstructive operations on 23-year-old whose face was disfigured. It took only seconds for the Humvee to flip over and crash on a highway near Camp Bucca in southern Iraq in August 2005. The force of impact was blunted by the body armor protecting Senior Airman Michael Fletcher. But his gear was not strong enough to stop the wreck from crushing the rest of him. [click link for full article]

American Society For Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Warns Patients To Steer Clear Of Injection Fat Loss Treatments
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) released today a warning against the use of injection fat loss treatments. Patients are advised to avoid these procedures, which are commonly known as lipolysis, mesotherapy, or the brand names Lipodissolve and Lipostabil. Although marketed as fat loss treatments, these procedures are scientifically unproven, lacking any objective data on safety and efficacy. [click link for full article]

Key To Manipulating Fat Discoverd By Scientists
In what they call a 'stunning research advance,' investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use simple, non-toxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas on the bodies of laboratory animals. They say the discovery, published online in Nature Medicine, could revolutionize human cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery and treatment of diseases associated with human obesity. [click link for full article]

Cosmetic Genital Surgery May Be Fuelling Women's Insecurity About Their Bodies
Cosmetic genital surgery may be fuelling women's insecurity about their body and their body parts, argue two senior doctors in this week's BMJ. They believe that women should be warned about the risks of cosmetic genital surgery, and that alternative solutions to concerns about the appearance of their genitals should be developed. [click link for full article]

Eating Soon After A Tummy Tuck Could Get Patients Out Of Hospital Faster
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) announced that withholding oral intake of food in patients after abdominoplasty ("tummy tuck") may not be necessary, and that feeding patients earlier could allow for quicker discharge after surgery. [click link for full article]

Researchers Discover How Botox Can Alleviate Bell's Palsy
Bell's Palsy which is a form of paralysis caused by a malfunction of a facial nerve can be helped by the injection of botox according to researchers of Melbourne's Brain Research Institute (BRI). Using state of the art technology to monitor the brain in real time, the scientists have discovered that certain areas of the brain, including damaged areas responsible for facial movements, may reorganise after injections of botox combined with facial exercises. [click link for full article]

Link Between Gastric Bypass Surgery And Neurological Conditions
A decade-long study by neurologists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock has found a link between the increasingly popular weight-loss surgery known as gastric bypass and several serious neurological conditions.Katalin Juhasz Pocsine, M.D., associate professor in the UAMS Department of Neurology, is lead author of the study, which was published online May 22 in the medical journal Neurology ( [click link for full article]

'Achieving Facial Harmony': Cosmetic Surgery Times Features Dr. Slupchynskyj's Patented S-implant In Recent Article
Cosmetic Surgery Times, a publishing industry leader in the cosmetic surgery arena, featured Dr. Oleh Slupchynskyj in a recent article on March 1st, 2007, "Achieving Facial Harmony: Novel S-implant addresses complexities of African-American rhinoplasty." The article subject, "Achieving Facial Harmony," is timely based on the steady increase in plastic surgery procedures among ethnic groups. [click link for full article]

Independent Research Shows Presence Of Protein Residue On Reusable Plastic Surgery Instruments Following Cleaning And Autoclaving
Tulip BioMed(TM), Inc. (PINKSHEETS: TPBD), a developer of biodesign instruments for living tissue management, including instruments for plastic, cosmetic, and orthopedic surgeries, today released a summary of the results of a research investigation conducted at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center that examined the interior surface of Tulip BioMed's disposable cannulas with the interior surfaces of non-Tulip reusable cannulas used in surgical settings. [click link for full article]

Men With Enlarged Prostate Can Benefit From Botox Injections Up To A Year After Treatment
Injecting botulinum toxin A, or Botox, into the prostate gland of men with enlarged prostate, eased symptoms and improved quality of life up to a year after the procedure, according to a study by researchers at the Chang Gung University Medical College, Taiwan, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The study, based on 37 men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), was presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) in Anaheim, Calif. [click link for full article]

BioForm Medical Enrolls First Patient In Clinical Trial Of CryoLife's BioGlue(R) Surgical Adhesive For Use In Cosmetic And Plastic Surgery
CryoLife, Inc. (NYSE: CRY) and BioForm Medical, Inc. announced that the first patient has been enrolled in a clinical study evaluating BioGlue(R) Surgical Adhesive as a method of fixation in brow lifts. [click link for full article]

The American Society For Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Takes Time Out For Patient Safety
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) is taking a Time Out to offer some suggestions to patients to help prevent wrong-site surgery and other preventable surgical mistakes for people having aesthetic plastic surgery. First established by the Joint Commission in 2004, today is the Annual National Time Out Day. [click link for full article]