Voted Best Plastic Surgery Office by Readers of South Shore Magazine
Thank you to the readers ofSouth Shore Home, Life& Style magazine for votingChristine Hamori Cosmetic Surgery + Skin Spa as theBest Plastic Surgery Office for 2020! We are so pleased that so many of our happy clients took the time to vote for us in what has been a not so normal time.We have reopened and are seeing patients again under strict new office protocols. You can read more about them here:Important New Office Protocols.When you are ready, we are here. We remain committed to excellence and patient safety, and have redoubled our efforts on all fronts applying state and federal COVID-19 guidelines. We look forward...
Source: What's New In Plastic Surgery? - July 13, 2020 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: best plastic surgeon boston christine hamori south shore Source Type: blogs
Specials in the Skin Spa for July
Welcome Back!We ' re so happy to begin seeing our community of patients again! Now that things are beginning to get back to normal; know that we continue to keep safety as our top priority.Please be sure to review ournew office protocols prior to your visit:BIG JULY SPECIALS!Body Contouring!30% off a series of 4CoolTone treatments, or bundle and save even more!Get 35% off 2 or more areas ofCoolsculpting + series a of 4 of Cooltone treatments(cannot be combined with 25% off special, see below)25% off allSkin Spa procedures!(cannot be combined with CoolSculpting/CoolTone special)10% off allin-stock skincare products!You must...
Source: What's New In Plastic Surgery? - July 10, 2020 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: Skin Spa Specials Source Type: blogs
Nanostimulators Activate Damaged Tissue to Heal Itself
Peripheral artery diseases and injuries to tissue reduce the amount of oxygen that reaches the affected muscles. Such ischemia is difficult to treat, as new vessels are required to carry more oxygen into damaged tissues. Stem cells derived from fat tissues have been shown to excrete substances that spur angiogenesis and calm nearby inflammation. But when these stem cells are simply injected into living animals, the effect doesn’t last long and the stem cells stop producing so-called paracrine factors that mediate new vessel formation.
Now, researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been able to...
Source: Medgadget - June 24, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Medicine Nanomedicine Plastic Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Easily Removable Surgical Tape to Seal Internal Wounds
Researchers at MIT recently developed an adhesive tape that allows surgeons to seal internal wounds and that can readily stick to slippery internal surfaces, as a potential replacement for sutures. However, the adhesive worked a little too well, and was difficult to remove or adjust without causing irritation or tissue damage.
Now, the research team has developed a new version of the tape that can be readily detached from the tissue surface by applying a liquid solution. The development makes the tape safer and easier to use, and allows surgeons to remove it once tissue healing has completed or adjust the tape’s p...
Source: Medgadget - June 23, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Materials Neurosurgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Printed Soft Objects for Shape-Shifting Biomedical Implants
Researchers
at Rice University have developed a method to 3D print soft structures that can
reversibly change their shape in response to external stimuli, such as heat or an
electric current. The researchers have dubbed their technique “reactive 4D
printing” and it could have potential in creating adaptive biomedical implants
that can respond to external stimuli for increased therapeutic functionality.
Soft robotic implants have significant therapeutic potential, as they more naturally blend with the soft tissues of the body than rigid implants, and could interact with and manipulate tissues with less risk of irrita...
Source: Medgadget - June 11, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Materials Plastic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Microneedle Patch for Delivering Stem Cells Into Tissue
Researchers at the Terasaki Institute in Los Angeles have developed a microneedle patch to deliver mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into the skin. The biodegradable needles contain a gelatin matrix in which MSCs can survive. Once applied to the skin and removed, the needles detach from the patch and remain within the tissue. The hard outer shell of the needles breaks down over time and allows the cells within to provide therapeutic effects on the surrounding tissue.
MSCs have
significant therapeutic potential in a wide variety of disease states. They show
particular promise in a regenerative capacity, in applications such...
Source: Medgadget - June 11, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dermatology Materials Medicine Plastic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 8th 2020
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Source: Fight Aging! - June 7, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Stem Cell Therapy Reverses Aspects of Photoaging in Skin
With few exceptions, the worldwide community of clinics offering first generation stem cell therapies is not usually a source of reliable data. They don't tend to conduct trials or even much report on the results of their work. Further, the stem cell therapies used can vary enormously in effectiveness. Cells are fickle things and tiny differences in how two groups run exactly the same protocol for sourcing and preparing cells can cause widely divergent outcomes, both between clinics, and from patient to patient for the same clinic. Not that groups are in fact usually running the same protocol; a very broad range of possibi...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Magnetic Tracking System for Flexible Surgical Robots
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a magnetic tracking system for surgical robots to operate with dexterity within the body. The technology does not require patient or clinician exposure to radiation, and is much less expensive that pre-existing monitoring techniques. A magnet is embedded in the tip of the robot and a series of sensors can track its location, while a neural network improves the accuracy of the tracking system.
“Continuum
medical robots work really well in highly constrained environments inside the
body,” said Tania Morimoto, a researcher involved in the study. “Th...
Source: Medgadget - May 19, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Neurosurgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Personalized Blood Flow Modeling Benefits from Virtual Reality Interface
Researchers
at Duke University have developed a fluid dynamics simulator that can model
blood flow within the body, including the motion of individual blood cells. The
researchers hope that the system could eventually be used by clinicians to
model blood flow for individual patients and help with treatment decisions,
such as stent placement.
By testing various graphical user interfaces for the system, the research team learned that both a virtual reality system and a traditional computer were easily used by participants, but most preferred the VR interface, suggesting that it could help to increase user uptake of the s...
Source: Medgadget - May 15, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Informatics Neurosurgery Plastic Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Electric Stimulation Gives Robot-Assistive Surgery a Sense of Touch
A team of researchers at Texas A&M have performed studies evaluating how electrical stimulation can help users control robots, for example helping surgeons steady their movements during robot-assisted procedures. They found, in 11 subjects, that small electrical stimulations to the fingertips can help users control the pinching of a hardwood block with a robotic arm. These findings can one day help stabilize and improve control of surgical robots.
In many surgical robots, visual feedback is the only type of feedback surgeons have of their movements; it is hard to know how close the instruments are to each and...
Source: Medgadget - April 30, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Siavash Parkhideh Tags: Cardiac Surgery Neurosurgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Your Data Privacy During a Pandemic
Picture a scenario where citizens willingly have their every move tracked via their smartphones; their every bank transaction monitored; and have themselves tracked from CCTV footage. Pretty Orwellian, right? Dubious tracking from smartphones and wearables by unscrupulous third parties is what we explored in our article on the dark side of health trackers.
However, this scenario is a reality in countries from East to West around the globe. Several countries have implemented digital surveillance to track the spread of the novel coronavirus. Others are contemplating this solution, while many believe it will linger after l...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 23, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones data privacy cybersecurity tracking coronavirus covid19 contact tracing Source Type: blogs
Skin tag removal: Optional but effective
Skin tags are common, benign skin growths that hang from the surface of the skin on a thin piece of tissue called a stalk. They are made up of many components, including fat, collagen fibers, and sometimes nerve cells and small blood vessels. It’s possible that these collagen fibers and blood vessels become wrapped up inside a layer of skin, leading to the formation of a skin tag. The medical term for a skin tag is acrochordon, and they can also be referred to as soft fibromas or fibroepithelial polyps.
Skin tags are frequently found in areas of friction on the skin, such as the neck, underarms, under the breasts, eyeli...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kristina Liu, MD, MHS Tags: Cosmetic surgery Health Skin and Hair Care Source Type: blogs
SX-One MicroKnife Makes Carpal Tunnel Release a Minimally Invasive Procedure: Interview with CEO Dr. Darryl Barnes
Carpal tunnel syndrome is a fairly common diagnosis in the United States, affecting approximately three to six percent of adults. Symptoms include pain, numbness, and tingling along the thumb, index, and middle fingers. For severe or refractory cases, the best treatment is surgery. However, because open surgery requires anesthesia and many weeks of downtime, most of the patients who are recommended for surgery do not receive it. That’s where Sonex Health comes in.
The company’s
SX-One MicroKnife and ultrasound-guidance are used to perform the carpal tunnel
release. Using this minimally-invasive approach allows the ...
Source: Medgadget - March 20, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Exclusive Neurology Neurosurgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Source Type: blogs
New Non-Toxic, Printable Biomedical Material Developed
Synthetic dry elastomers are polymeric materials that feature cross-linked networks that form into random and unordered shapes and textures. These materials have a host of properties that are applicable in biomedicine, but the randomness of their internal structures at different scales makes it difficult to actually use these elastomers.
Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a porous elastomer whose properties, including its structure down to the nanoscale, can be fine tuned to produce capabilities such as controlled drug release, replacements for lost tissues, and guiding the g...
Source: Medgadget - March 16, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Materials Plastic Surgery Urology Source Type: blogs
