Regenerative Medicine

Breaking Big Business News: Allergan Aquires SkinMedica!

Allergan has acquired the SkinMedica skin care business for $350 million.

Regenerative Medicine

FDA Approves MiniTC for Fat Tissue Processing and Other Applications

Jointechlabs – a provider of point-of-care regenerative medicine therapies – announces that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company's MiniTC for point-of-care fat tissue processing designed to obtain microfat (or fat grafts), for multiple indications.

Regenerative Medicine

Regenerative Medicine Breakthrough: Team Grows First Functional Thymus

For the first time, researchers have grown a fully functional thymus from scratch in a living animal.

One to Watch: Valeant

by Denise Mann | Jul 30, 2013 | Aesthetics, Injectibles, Innovations, Products, Regenerative Medicine | 0

Valeant emerges as a force in aesthetics space.

Survey: Plastic Surgeons Embracing Fat Grafting to the Breast

by Denise Mann | Jul 1, 2013 | Aesthetics, Breast Augmentation, Breast Cancer, Regenerative Medicine | 0

Once discouraged, fat grafting to the breast—especially for reconstructive procedures—is now embraced by about 70% of US plastic surgeons.

Baby Steps

by Plastic Surgery Practice | Oct 19, 2012 | Regenerative Medicine, Research | 0

My mother has Parkinson’s disease. There, I said it. I wasn’t always able to say this out loud because that would make it true, but of late, I have come to terms with her disease. She is 65 years old, and has what her internist onc

Baby Steps

by Plastic Surgery Practice | Oct 9, 2012 | Regenerative Medicine, Research | 0

Denise Mann My mother has Parkinson’s disease. There, I said it. I wasn’t always able to say this out loud because that would make it true, but of late, I have come to terms with her disease. She is 65 years old, and has what her inter

Skin Deep

by Plastic Surgery Practice | Oct 3, 2012 | Regenerative Medicine, Research, Scar Treatment | 0

The skinny on skin substitutes and other advances in wound healing

Building the Six-Billion-Dollar Man

by Plastic Surgery Practice | Oct 2, 2012 | Regenerative Medicine, Research | 0

Paul S. Cederna, MD’s work with nerve regeneration is the stuff that science fiction is made of. Only it isn’t fiction

Plastic Surgery Gets Department Status at Pitt

by Plastic Surgery Practice | Jul 11, 2012 | Regenerative Medicine, Research | 0

Plastic surgery has been granted department status at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The new department will be led by J. Peter Rubin, MD.

Cytori Therapeutics Celution(R) 800 System Gets Nod in Russia

by Plastic Surgery Practice | May 31, 2012 | Regenerative Medicine | 0

Cytori Therapeutics Celution(R) 800 System is now approved for various medical uses in Russia including plastic surgery and select soft tissue therapies.

Fat-Derived Stem Cells Show Promise for Regenerative Medicine, Plastic Surgery, but Caution Urged

by Plastic Surgery Practice | May 29, 2012 | Regenerative Medicine | 0

Stem cells derived from fat do show promise in plastic surgery and regenerative medicine, but more research is needed to firmly establish the safety and efficacy of this therapy in humans.

Congrats! Big Honor Bestowed on LAVIV at Regenerative Medicine Conference

by Plastic Surgery Practice | Jan 31, 2012 | Regenerative Medicine | 0

The June 2011 FDA approval of LAVIV (azficel-T) for improving moderate to severe nasolabial fold wrinkles was named the No. 3 top story of 2011 in cell and gene therapy and regenerative medicine at the 2012 Cell & Gene Therapy Forum in Washington, D.

Body Contouring

by Plastic Surgery Practice | May 26, 2011 | Body Makeover, Collagen, Diet, Exercise, Liposuction, Regenerative Medicine, Sculpting, Trauma | 0

Advances in high-tech noninvasive body contouring has given physicians the tools for increasingly efficient and efficacious aesthetic procedures, improved patient safety, and cutting-edge technologies to attract new patients who want less downtime.