by Aphrodite Vlahos, Anna E. Hartman, Julie Ozanne, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock A woman walks into a plastic surgeon’s office with an image she has found online. She wants her body to look like the same, and thinks she knows how to get it. She tells the consulting surgeon exactly what she wants: round, 350cc...
WOLTERS KLUWER HEALTH Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment, which involves injecting a small amount of a patient’s own blood to release various growth factors from platelets, continues to increase in popularity. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has tracked the procedure since 2015 and reports a 25 percent increase in cosmetic PRP use in the last...
OCTOBER 18TH, 2019 MEDGADGET EDITORSEMERGENCY MEDICINE, MATERIALS, MEDICINE, ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY, PLASTIC SURGERY, PUBLIC HEALTH, SURGERY, VASCULAR SURGERY Antibiotics are usually only needed at particular sites, where infection is likely to start. Yet, they’re delivered throughout the entire body via pills and injections. This results in poor localized effectiveness, unnecessary effects on the rest of the body, and sometimes...
