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As part of the 2000 page Senate proposal for health care reform released today, Senate Democrats are proposing a 5% tax on cosmetic surgery. More details can be read in the New York Times report...

I had an interesting conversation with a patient this week, who strenuously asserted that the link between cholesterol levels and heart disease remains "unproven". As it happens, this month's issue...

This week, an influential government panel known as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), whose recommendations influences coverage of screening tests by Medicare and many insurance...

Ever see a product and go, "I wish I had thought of that"? Today, I tested a new surgical product called the Keller funnel, named after its inventor, also a plastic surgeon - and I had that very...

Johnson & Johnson has announced this week that it has decided to stop making and selling Evolence, an injectable soft-tissue filler. Although Evolence has a good track record of safety and...

New details have now emerged regarding the tragedy which occurred in south Florida, following liposuction surgery at an unlicensed medispa, which we discussed in an earlier chapter of the blog...

PSB- the Plastic Surgery Blog has been nominated as a top quality blog by the readers of the Orlando Sentinel. The Sentinel is running a contest, known as the "Orbbie awards", to determine the best...

Why don't you ever see tabloid headlines about "Good Plastic Surgery" or "Great Botox"? Or maybe "Fantastic facelift" or "Tremendous Tummy tuck"? Well, besides the fact that 1) sensationalist...

Yes, it helps the medicine go down, according to the old song. But it turns out that a little sugar - or more properly dextrose in the intravenous fluid - may help to reduce the chance of...

Hot off the press.... I just spoke with our Allergan reps: we will be one of the select few practices in Florida to offer this unbeatable combo bargain. Buy Latisse (Allergan's eyelash growing...

Sometimes marketing hype gets way ahead of the science. That's certainly the way it seems to have been with the current generation of laser-assisted liposuction devices. Promises of skin tightening...

Here's an interesting new finding for people struggling with their weight, as reported on BBC News (link), and published in the latest issue of the medical journal The Lancet: in a randomized,...

Artefill, the permanent injectable filler, is returning to the U.S. market. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with the CEO of the new company, Suneva Medical, that has purchased all the...

Developed at Massachusetts General Hospital, Zeltiq is a novel fat melting device, which uses the application of controlled cooling to melt fat non-surgically. The idea, known as cryolipolysis,...