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The Best Glass Baby Bottles
What's old is new. At the start of the 20th century, glass baby bottles won out over tin, pewter, porcelain, and earthenware bottles. Now, two decades into the 21st century...
23 hours ago - Mama Natural
Omega-3 fatty acids may help prevent complications in women receiving breast implants
For women receiving breast implants during reconstructive or cosmetic breast surgery, scarring around the implant - called capsular contracture - is a common, costly, and...
1 day ago - News Medical - 2 articles
Breast Enhancement: What You Need to Know
2 Min Read Year after year, breast augmentation and other breast enhancement procedures continue to rank as the most popular plastic surgery options for women. Breast...
2 days ago - Weston Cosmetic Surgery
Improving Plastic Surgery Resident Education and Quality of Care with Outcomes Feedback Using the Surgery Report Card: An Initial Experience
The practice of tracking and analyzing surgical outcomes is essential to becoming better surgeons. However, this feedback system is largely absent in residency training...
3 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery - 2 articles
3 Questions to Ask at Your Breast Augmentation Consultation
Sometimes people feel nervous before their first consultation. Our breast augmentation patients often have questions about breast implants, recovery, and more, but they are...
6 days ago - Plastic Surgery Center of the South
Plastic Surgery For Seniors: Does Medicare Cover It?
When people think of plastic surgery, they think Botoxed lips and breast enhancements. The reality is that there are dozens of reasons to get plastic surgery that have nothing...
7 days ago - HealthWorks Collective
Robotic versus conventional nipple sparing mastectomy and immediate gel implant breast reconstruction in the management of breast cancer- A case control comparison study with analysis of clinical outcome, medical cost, and patient-reported cosmetic
: Robotic nipple sparing mastectomy and immediate gel implant breast reconstruction in the management of breast cancer had comparable clinical outcome with conventional nipple...
9 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery - 4 articles
A Standardized Patient Education Class as a Vehicle to Improving Shared Decision Making and Increasing Access to Breast Reconstruction
Shared decision-making is a key component of patient-centered care and has been shown to improve patient satisfaction and quality of life. Here, we study the impact of a...
9 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery - 3 articles
Researchers implicate gene in DNA errors in aggressive breast cancer
Researchers led by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center's Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, described the role of a mutation in the Mre11 gene in triple negative breast cancer and...
10 days ago - UNC Healthcare - 2 articles
Impact of skeletal muscle mass on complications following expander breast reconstruction
Sarcopenia is characterized by skeletal muscle mass depletion and decreased muscle power. In two-stage breast reconstruction using a tissue expander, obesity is the main risk...
12 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
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More Than 4 in 10 Americans Are Now Obese: CDC
Much more than just a cosmetic issue, obesity is associated with type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, fatty liver disease, sleep apnea, arthritis...
The Best Glass Baby Bottles
What's old is new. At the start of the 20th century, glass baby bottles won out over tin, pewter, porcelain, and earthenware bottles. Now, two decades into the 21st century...
Onboarding Tips - How to Hire a New Employee
Written by Jeff Russell, Author of Secrets to a Successful Practice & Executive Director of the IAPAM Whenever someone joins your team it's critical that they are embraced by...
A retrospective review of 5,000 non-surgical rhinoplasties performed to date
As patients continue to seek non-invasive treatments across the cosmetic spectrum, "liquid rhinoplasty" is emerging as the non-surgical alternative to the traditional nose job.
CAR-T therapy gives patient options after cancer returns
When Sabrina Shelton exhausted traditional treatment options, her care team at UVA referred her to UNC Lineberger's Matthew Foster, MD, for a chimeric antigen receptor T-cell...
Years of endurance competition may result in aortic dilatation
The aorta may be an exercise-responsive plastic organ that remodels in aging competitive endurance athletes, researchers reported in JAMA Cardiology. In a cohort of endurance...
5 Foods to Eat for a Healthy Colon
Let's talk about your colon. We have a gut feeling that you probably don't talk about it often, but maybe you should. Did you know that colorectal cancer is on the rise for...