Our Gift Cards Make Great Valentines!
Just a reminder that our gift cards make terrific valentines for a teen, spouse or significant other. Christine Hamori gift cards can be purchased in any dollar amount and can be matched to correspond with a particular treatment, such as a facial, acne treatment, or laser hair removal.Or, your gift recipient can choose from our extensive menu of treatments — both surgical, non-surgical and facial injectables.Please call the office at 781-934-2200 for more information, or stop by at 95 Tremont Street in Duxbury, MA.Click here for Directions.Your valentines will love it! Christine Hamori Cosmetic Surgery + Skin Spa
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Source: What's New In Plastic Surgery? - February 4, 2015 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: gift cards gift ideas Source Type: blogs
Trend: Mobile apps to improve vision via perceptual learning
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Vision training: Mobile app improved pilots’ vision (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association):
“Military pilots (and other test subjects) have improved their vision after a few weeks of training with a new application for mobile devices—an application now available to the public.
The technology has helped dedicated users reverse age-related vision loss, and to help younger people improve on 20/20. Their eyes—including lenses, muscles, and receptors that send signals to the optic nerve—are only incidentally involved: The real work is going on inside the brain…
More specifically, the GlassesOff application is de...
Source: SharpBrains - January 26, 2015 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Peak Performance Technology age-related age-related vision loss Brain-Training GlassesOff mobile app perceptual learning pilots vision training visual processing speed Source Type: blogs
Brasseler USA® Updates Aluminum Bur Blocks with Silicone Inserts New Silicone Inserts Provide Superior Storage and Organization
SAVANNAH, GA (January 6, 2015) – Brasseler USA®, a leading manufacturer of quality instrumentation, is pleased to introduce an updated version of its standard aluminum bur block. Brasseler USA now offers aluminum bur blocks equipped with silicone inserts for optimum security and organization. The newly added silicone inserts provide a number of benefits making custom rotary procedure organization efficient and easy. The burs rest within the silicone inserts inside the aluminum block providing enhanced instrument retention, securing the bur firmly in place to avoid common slip or fall-out incidents. The new a...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - January 12, 2015 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Start-up pitches high-tech glue for surgical leaks
TEL AVIV — An Israeli medical-device start-up is tackling one of the most dangerous occurrences in surgery — and it's doing it with glue.LifeSeal is a glue-like substance that augments and, in some surgeries like hernias, replaces the traditional and painful sealing procedures of staples, tacks and sutures.The privately-owned Israeli company behind the high-tech glue, LifeBond, says it should help in the treatment of post-operative leaks in closures of gastrointestinal and other surgical wounds. Patients get back up to speed more quickly and are more comfortable as they do.Orahn Preiss-Bloom, one of LifeBond's co-found...
Source: Medical Hemostat - November 16, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hemostatguy at gmail.com (hemostat guy) Source Type: blogs
LASIK results: Great impact, but room for improvement
This is a guest post by life sciences entrepreneur Mikael Totterman
Lifting the flap
In my last post (When it comes to investing, the eye has it) I wrote that venture investors are flocking to ophthalmic investments due to extensive unmet needs. One such need is refractive correction. The vast majority of the 150 million Americans who require refractive correction still rely on old-fashioned glasses and contact lenses. Laser-Assisted in situ Keratomileusis surgery (LASIK) is a solution for some, but there are only 700,000 procedures in the US per year, just a tiny fraction of the potential.
It led me to ask, wh...
Source: Health Business Blog - November 5, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: dewe67 Tags: Devices Entrepreneurs Technology Source Type: blogs
First FDA Clearance for 3D Printed Polymeric Implants for Facial Reconstruction
Oxford Performance Materials out of South Windsor, Connecticut received the first FDA clearance for a 3D printed polymeric implant for facial reconstruction. The OsteoFab Patient-Specific Facial Device (OPSFD) is uniquely manufactured for individual patient anatomies using MRI or CT scans as templates.
The implants can be produced with a level of detail previously unavailable, allowing for improved outcomes following challenging surgeries. They are produced out of the company’s OXPEKK powder material and 3D printed using laser sintering additive technology.
The implants are biocompatible, radiolucent, and similar t...
Source: Medgadget - August 28, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: ENT Neurological Surgery Source Type: blogs
The femtosecond laser: Paying for the attendant in the washroom?
If there is a clear winner in the health care field--in terms of increased efficacy and lower cost over the decades--it has to be cataract surgery. I remember my grandmother's cataract removal in the 1960s. An expensive, laborious procedure requiring days of unmoving bed rest afterwards while the eye healed, and a lifetime of thick glasses. Now, the procedure takes minutes, the costs have plummeted, and the patient leaves the outpatient procedure ready to drive herself home. As noted here, "The surgery has become fairly common: millions of people have cataracts removed every year, and 98% of the surgeries are ...
Source: Running a hospital - August 24, 2014 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Livonex Makes Breakthrough in How Plaque is Removed
LIVIONEX INC. REDEFINES TOOTHPASTE, VIRTUALLY ELIMINATING PLAQUE~New Dental Gel First to Break Molecular Bond of Plaque, an Oral Health Breakthrough in Combatting America’s Silent Epidemic of Gingivitis and Periodontitis~San Francisco, July 28, 2014. Livionex, Inc., a Silicon Valley life science company focused on biofilms and inflammation, today released the results of a double blind clinical trial study on reduction of plaque, gingivitis and gum bleeding. The study was conducted at the Beckman Laser Institute of UC Irvine and compared Livionex Dental Gel to Colgate Total, the leading ADA and FDA approved anti-plaque, ...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - August 7, 2014 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Outbreaks of Non-tubercuous Mycobacterial Infection in the United States
The following chronology of nosocomial mycobacteriosis outbreaks in the United States is abstracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com and the Gideon e-book series. [1,2] Primary references available on request.
1987 – An outbreak (17 cases) of Mycobacterium chelonae otitis media was caused by contaminated water used by an ENT practice in Louisiana.
1988 – An outbreak (8 cases) of foot infections due to Mycobacterium chelonae subspecies abscessus infections were associated with a jet injector used in a podiatric office.
1989 to 1990 – An outbreak (16 cases) of sputum colonization by Mycobacterium fortuitum...
Source: GIDEON blog - July 23, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Microbiology Outbreaks ProMED Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria Source Type: blogs
Put Your Face Lift on Hold with Lasers
(Source: What's New In Plastic Surgery?)
Source: What's New In Plastic Surgery? - May 27, 2014 Category: Plastic Surgeons Tags: cosmetic laser treatment fractional skin resurfacing Source Type: blogs
Put Your Face Lift on Hold with Laser Treatments
Here is a nice informational video I did recently with the Plastic Surgery Channel on Fractional Skin Resurfacing. Using the Palomar 1540 cosmetic laser, we are treating a lot of patient complaints of wrinkles around the eyes (peri-orbital) and mouth (peri-oral). For deeper, more severe lip lines, we use the ablative 2940 fractional laser. And I sometimes use Botox and Juvederm to enhance results by relaxing and filling the more stubborn wrinkles. Laser technology allows us to treat with non-invasive techniques that have minimal downtime, and noticeable results. Please click to learn more on our fractional page.Considering...
Source: What's New In Plastic Surgery? - May 27, 2014 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: cosmetic laser treatment fractional skin resurfacing Source Type: blogs
Is the N Lite Laser good for acne and wrinkles?
Nancy asks…I’m bothered by adult acne and am thinking of getting laser treatment. Any thoughts?
The Beauty Brains respond:
To give you an expert’s opinion we checked with occasional contributor Dr. Michele Koo, a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon practicing in St. Louis, Missouri. Here’s what Dr. Koo has to say.
“The N Lite Laser has been commonly used to improve fine wrinkles. It achieves this by wounding the skin in a NON ABLATIVE (not completely removing the superficial layer of skin) manner. As a result this stimulates the growth factors to facilitate new collagen growth (Collagen is vital f...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Best Problems Source Type: blogs
Killed By Bad Philosophy
This essay was written a few years back by the founder of the Brain Preservation Prize, but apparently not published until more recently. I had not read it, so will assume that is probably also true for many of the readers here.
Whatever your position on cryonics and mind uploading, many of the points made in the piece generalize well to the current situation for rejuvenation research: so much potential, but so little support from the public. If we die due to aging, it will be because we collectively chose not to make a serious effort to build rejuvenation treatments, not because we were incapable of achieving that goal:...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 4, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
A matter of public trust
Conclusion I for one believe it would take a superhuman effort on the part of the Dean to recuse himself from every financial analysis, purchase decision, research decision, and educational decision at the University of Illinois that has the potential to involve Novartis or its competitors. As noted, I am in no way asserting or implying that this superb physician and researcher has improperly benefited or that he has failed to disclose under state law or University policy. What I am saying is that both institutions require a person to exercise a proper duty of care and loyalty to each of them. It is incon...
Source: Running a hospital - March 1, 2014 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Dear Dr. Laser Surgery Scam,
Sorry I talked my patient out of letting you touch him. I understand you have to make a living, too. I know I hung up on you when you called to yell and threaten me yesterday, but, quite frankly, I don't give a shit.My patient has pain in the right hand, which my EMG/NCV last week showed was simply carpal tunnel syndrome. I've scheduled him to see a hand surgeon in a few days.I understand the MRI of his neck had a few disk bulges and all, which might cause hand pain. But, as is documented in the report and your own note, all those abnormalities are on the left. His symptoms are all on the right.When he told me that you wer...
Source: Doctor Grumpy in the House - February 20, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: Grumpy, M.D. Source Type: blogs
