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The world's top laser experts will gather in Kissimmee, Fla., to share innovations in lasers and emerging technologies at the 28th ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR LASER MEDICINE AND SURGERY (ASLMS). "LASER 2008" will be held on April 2-6, 2008, at the Gaylord PalmsTM Resort and Convention Center. Headlining the sc ...
Whether a painless, portable device that uses electrical current rather than X-ray to look for breast cancer could be an alternative to traditional mammograms is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. MCG is one of 20 centers internationally and the only place in Georgia studying new
technology developed by Z-Tech Inc., to compare tradition ...
Research Service (ARS) chemists Joe Laszlo and Dave Compton originally
developed SoyScreen, they envisioned outdoor enthusiasts and other
consumers using their invention as an environmentally friendly
alternative to petroleum-based sunscreens.
Instead, SoyScreen—and the patented ARS method of producing
it—became the technolog ...
LigaSure Advance™ was created in response to
what surgeons said they need to optimize efficiency and safety in the
operating room. This latest innovation in the LigaSure™ lineup is a 5
mm hand-activated instrument that provides surgeons with the ability to
create fusion cycles in two to four seconds, and when used with
Valleylab&tr ...
Microdermabrasion was developed in Italy about eight years ago. It has been used in Europe since then. It is relatively new in the United States. After careful researching various machines (there are more than twenty microdermabrasion machines), I decided to purchase the original machine that was developed in Florence Italy.
It continues to be ...
What could be better than liposuction, a procedure that rids people of excess fat?
How about laser liposuction that, proponents say, not only zaps fat, but eliminates sagging skin at the same time?
The latest installment of The Early Show's ongoing
series, "Weapons of Mass Reduction" Thursday involved a doctor who
performs las ...
The continuing evolution of medical lasers, over the past several years, has provided a means of skin rejuvenation, removing skin blemishes, pigments and wrinkles, vein treatments, permanently reducing unwanted hair, acne and scar treatments, as well as treatment for multiple other skin problems. The new lasers achieve this with little or ...
As federal regulators prepare to hold their first hearing on how
complications from laser eye surgery affect a patient’s quality of life,
patients are worried that they are being shut out.
The Food and Drug Administration has said it will hold a public hearing on
the issue this spring, but patients who have requested to speak at the ...
Ms. Sainz brings to Concentric almost twenty years of experience in the
cardiovascular medical
technology area. Most recently she was President
of the Cardiac Surgery division of Guidant Corporation and led the
transition and integration of the Cardiac Surgery division into Boston
Scientific following the merger of the two companies. Prior to t ...
Plastic surgery has historically been viewed as an exclusive and
costly service only the rich and famous could afford to pursue. Not
anymore. With even the most dramatic and promising cosmetic surgery
procedures becoming safer, more common and far less complicated than
ever as well as a growing inventory of options now available for
financin ...
I was reading through one of my girlfriend's old fashion mags (was it Glamour? Marie Claire? Cosmo? - that's anyone's guess) and I came across a little blurb talking about how very natural results could be achieved thanks to innovations in stem cell
technology. I'll be the first to say that I am all in favor of "natural" (using that term ...
HAYWARD, Calif., March 12 - Thermage, Inc. (Nasdaq: THRM), a leader in non-invasive tissue tightening in the aesthetic industry, today announced it has begun initial shipments of its ThermaTip(TM) CL treatment tips for use in the Company's cellulite procedure. The procedure noticeably reduces the appearance of cellulite after just a single treatmen ...
Thermage, Inc., a leader in non-invasive tissue tightening in the aesthetic industry, today announced it has begun initial shipments of its ThermaTip(TM) CL treatment tips for use in the Company's cellulite procedure. The procedure noticeably reduces the appearance of cellulite after just a single treatment. The treatment tip and procedure are the ...
