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Dr Candice Lane Launches First Doctor Bioidentical Hormone Blog
Dr. Candice Lane, a leading physician in anti-aging medicine, launches her bioidentical hormone, anti-aging, and aesthetic blog, Hormone Health MD Plus, which includes medical-literature-based information not widely availabe among practicing physicians. It focuses on the symptoms and treatment of peirmenopause, menopause, PMS, andropause, thyroid deficiency, growth hormone deficiency, adrenal stress and fatigue, and diseases of […]
New Botox Competitor on Horizon – Mentor Corporation Announces Completion Of PurTox Study
Mentor Corporation, a leading supplier of medical products for the global aesthetic market, today announced completion of the first of three Phase 3 clinical trials with its purified botulinum Type A neurotoxin (PurTox®) for the reduction of glabellar rhytides (frown lines). This newly completed study involved 400 subjects at ten investigational sites in the United […]
Credit cards help erase wrinkles
Trying to compete in a tight job market or to simply keep the signs of aging at bay, more patients are using plastic to pay for cosmetic surgery lest their appearance go the way of the sagging economy. Calabasas real estate agent Diane P. considers the $8,000 breast augmentation she put on her credit card […]
4 ways to lower your risk when visiting a spa
A medical spa may seem to offer the best of both cosmetics-treatment worlds: a lush spot where you can go to be pampered, while enjoying the very latest in technology to improve your appearance. But despite the adjective “medical,” you can’t assume that these spots are always the healthiest places to go. More than half, […]
Botox boosts dating success
Getting Botox jabs might be a painful procedure, but it indeed makes you look attractive and improves dating success, according to a new study. Getting Botox jabs might be a painful procedure, but it indeed makes you look attractive and improves dating success, according to a new study.
Guide to Body Contouring Equipment
There are now many new entrants into the Body Contouring equipment realm. PSP magazine has many of the them compiled in the following online report: Body Contouring: The Major Players. Here you will see CoolTouch CTEV, Cynosure SmartLipo, Mentor UltraSculpt, Sound Surgical Technologies Vaser, and Thermage ThermaCoolNXT.
Leveraging the Internet to do more
“We all need to do more with less. With dwindling marketing budgets and increased costs, medspas and aesthetic medicine practices need to utilize strategies that can increase medical spa patient visits,” says IAPAM executive-director, Jeff Russell. Check out these internet-based tools our IAPAM members are using to successfully (and inexpensively) increase their medical spa revenues:
Botox for dudes: No longer a secret shame
The buzz about metrosexuals may have died down, but men’s desire to look good certainly hasn’t. These days, many are turning to Botox to smooth out frown lines and forehead creases. IAPAM member, Dr. Michael Stanford, co-owner of Embrace Spa in St. Petersburg, said the percentage of his Botox clients who are men has grown […]
Syringe sharing – Will you get more than you bargained for the next time you get a Botox injection?
So many things could come to mind when someone is about to stick a needle into your face to purposefully partially paralyze you. Among them, thanks to this year’s Endoscopy Center syringe-sharing fiasco in Las Vegas, should be this: Is this qualified medical professional exercising prudent single-patient-use procedures? As the needle deactivates your worry lines, […]
Could cosmetic fillers help your aging skin?
Pump up the volume! That’s the latest rallying cry among those in the front lines of the war on aging. The sagging facial skin that was once made taut by going under the surgeon’s knife is now being restored to more youthful fullness using needles and cosmetic fillers instead.
