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E! talk show host Giuliana Rancic chooses double mastectomy for breast cancer treatment. Why this is the right choice 7 Dec 2011 | 08:39 am
E! talk show host Giuliana Rancic, recently diagnosed with breast cancer (and having failed an attempt to remove the cancer with a lumpectomy) has decided to proceed with bilateral mastectomies and re...
NJOM shows sick patients cost more to treat...... Who knew? 6 Dec 2011 | 06:09 am
In the least surprising conclusion of recent articles in the New England Journal of Medicine (N. Engl. J. Med. 2011;365:1704-12,) it was proven that older, sicker patients cost more money to take care...
Where are they now? Even supermodels get old like the rest of us 24 Sep 2011 | 05:06 am
There's a really interesting demonstration of facial aging you can see in a "Where are they now?" slideshow in former supermodels of the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's you can see here. Here's a representa...
Victory for Common Sense: FDA drops MRI suggestion for patients with silicone implants 2 Sep 2011 | 04:56 am
BREAKING NEWS: A fairly significant announcement by the USFDA was in the paper today re. silicone gel breast implants (see NYT summary here). Based on testimony and evidence presented, the FDA has fin...
Groupon's model may be both bad business and illegle for cosmetic medical services 29 Aug 2011 | 04:30 am
The use of social media services like Facebook and Twitter to promote your medical practice on the web has become common in recent years. For today's potential patients, if you don't have a web footpr...
A teachable plastic surgery moment from Wimbledon 2011: Treating the "gummy smile" 29 Jun 2011 | 06:12 am
I was checking Sports Illustrated's web page to get the updates from Wimbledon and they showed a smiling picture of German, Sabine Lisicki, who'd just won her quarterfinal match. MS. Lisicki demonstr...
SAFE: FDA re-confirms safety of silicone gel breast implants 24 Jun 2011 | 02:44 am
In a not unexpected conclusion, yesterday the United States Food & Drug Administration re-affirmed their 2006 decision to reintroduce silicone gel breast implants into the United States market for cos...
In office breast cancer surgery, just a matter of time? 7 May 2011 | 12:27 am
This is kind of a post I've been sitting on for about 7-8 months that I though would be kind of interesting. Last Fall there was an article in a New York business magazine about a small trend in some ...
Addition by subtraction - Pro tennis player's Simona Halep's breast reduction 24 Apr 2011 | 05:57 am
Back in 2009 I wrote a post titled "Pro tennis player Simona Halep's cups no longer runneth over." (yes I was making bad puns then too) which highlighted WTA tennis player, Simona Halep, a promising R...
Putting a stake thru the routine MRI screening of silicone gel breast implants 23 Apr 2011 | 02:13 am
When the USFDA lifted a nearly 2 decade moratorium on the use of silicone gel breast implants for cosmetic surgery indications in 2006, there were two puzzling things added to the product labeling. 1...
