News tagged with plastic surgeons

Burns app could save lives at the touch of a button

Chris Seaton, formerly a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps and now a PhD student studying Computer Science at The University of Manchester, created the easy-to-use iPhone and iPad application after seeing ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Personalized 3-D avatars for real life

An avatar is really no more than a graphical representation, generally human, which is associated with a user for identification purposes. Avatars can be either photographs or art drawings, and certain technologies enable ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Texas man gets first full face transplant in US

(AP) -- A Texas construction worker horribly disfigured in a power line accident has undergone the nation's first full face transplant in hopes of smiling again and feeling kisses from his 3-year-old daughter.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taking unpleasant surprises out of cosmetic surgery with 3D 'before-and-after' tool

For some plastic surgery patients, expectations are unrealistically high. Basing their hopes on the before-and-after albums offered in surgeons' offices, they expect to achieve a perfect body or to look just ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hope for severe cold hands

Many people experience painful, numb cold hands as they go back and forth into wintry weather. Yet for some people cold, swollen, chapped hands may be a sign of blocked or constricted blood vessels. Most of these cases are ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Assessment tool predicts blood clot risk after plastic surgery

Patients undergoing plastic or reconstructive surgery should receive a risk assessment before their procedure to predict whether they'll develop potentially fatal blood clots in the legs or lungs, according to research at ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Unique breast oncology and plastic surgery offer superior outcomes

(PhysOrg.com) -- While physicians and researchers strive for the day when drugs, radiation and even ultrasound will be used to obliterate tumors, surgical removal of breast cancer remains the standard treatment. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Australia hopes for living skin for burns victims

Australian scientists are working towards creating a living, full-thickness replacement skin for burns victims and hope to begin animal trials later this year.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 04, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Twins joined at head successfully separated (Update 2)

(AP) -- A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Did India invent the nose job?

An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4

New technique for injectable facial fillers improves comfort, recovery

Less pain during injections for wrinkle-fighting facial fillers. Less swelling afterward. Less time in the office waiting for anesthesia to take effect.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Big Breasts Can Be an Even Bigger Pain Requiring Surgical Relief

(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to pop-culture portrayals, big breasts aren't always an asset; for some women, they can be a literal pain in the neck.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Plastic surgeons should be part of disaster relief planning, response

When a terrorist bomb explodes, a tornado rips through a town, a hurricane devastates a region, or wildfires ravage homes and businesses, plastic surgeons are not typically atop the list of emergency responders.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Are breast cancer patients being kept in the dark?

Despite the increase of breast reconstruction procedures performed in 2008, nearly 70 percent of women who are eligible for the procedure are not informed of the reconstructive options available to them, according to a recently ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surgery in patients with RA is often 'too little, too late'

A new study published by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reveals that one of the most common conditions caused by Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is best treated surgically, sooner rather than later.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1