
BREAKING: Grand Jury Declines to Indict Houston Med Spa Employees
March 26, 2019A Houston grand jury has declined to indict two medical spa employees for practicing medicine in violation of the law. On March [...]

Millennials and the “Instagram Consult”
March 26, 2019Prejuvenation, as a term and a trend, has been a growing movement within aesthetic medicine over the last few years, with millennials [...]

Navigating the Sexual Revolution of Aesthetics
March 25, 2019The secret to making sexual aesthetics a successful part of any cosmetic practice is focusing on patient individuality, according to Kimberly Evans, [...]

Pain Control After Plastic Surgery
March 22, 2019According to two new studies, plastic surgery patients are at significant risk of persistent opioid use; plastic surgeons prescribe nearly double the [...]

Sunscreen: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
March 21, 2019One thing is clear—consumers and many skin care professionals do not know as much about safe sun as they should. Our profession [...]

Port Wine Stain Laser Treatment in Infancy Without Need for Anesthesia
March 20, 2019“Is it safe and effective to initiate port-wine stain laser treatments without general anesthesia in infancy?” This is the question researchers Roy [...]

Facial Expressions Affect Photo Comparability
March 20, 2019Researchers report in a new study that 16 facial expressions and head positions significantly impact malar and jowl volumes, with smiling and [...]

Practice Management: Lease Renewals
March 19, 2019It’s time to renew your lease. Are you ready to negotiate? If you’re like many practice owners, the answer is no. “Lease [...]

Limited-Time Offer AmSpa Members Won’t Want to Miss: Only by Cynosure
March 18, 2019Cynosure is offering a limited-time offer that AmSpa members won’t want to miss out on. It is offering Nitronox units for $7,714 [...]

In Just 15 Minutes, You Can Help the Medical Aesthetics Industry
March 15, 2019By: Alex R. Thiersch, JD, CEO of the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa)From now until March 28, AmSpa is conducting the 2019 [...]

Medical Spas Face the Challenges of Private Equity-Backed Health Care
March 14, 2019By James M. Stanford, JD, Partner, ByrdAdattoOver the last several years, private equity activity progressively made its entrance into the market of [...]

New Bill Would Give Physician Assistants Practice Independence in Minnesota
March 13, 2019A new bill introduced in Minnesota seeks to provide physician assistants (PAs) the ability to practice independently from physicians instead of under [...]