
New Bill Calls for Supervision Standards for Physician Assistants in Colorado
January 18, 2019A new bill introduced in Colorado would require physician assistants (PA) to receive mandated supervision and review time at certain points in [...]

The med spa subscription model
January 18, 2019Med spa subscriptions are changing the way med spas do business. Dallas-based plastic surgeon A. Jay Burns, M.D., who is medical director [...]

Improving the reporting of social media recruitment for clinical trials
January 16, 2019The popularity of social media has created a new opportunity for the research community to recruit study participants. Recent data indicate that [...]

Neurotoxin Treatments And The Masseter Muscle
January 15, 2019A literature review performed by Rawaa M. Almukhtar, MD, and Sabrina G. Fabi, MD, and published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (January [...]

Aesthetic medicine: Marketing by generation
January 15, 2019Generations of people tend to share characteristics that aesthetic practices can harness to better target their marketing efforts. From social media to [...]

Newer technologies give thread lifting a lift
January 15, 2019Gerald Pierone, Jr., M.D., has performed more than 30,000 dermal filler procedures, including liquid face lifting. But he says there is a [...]

Microneedling Reduces Smoking- And Aging-Related Skin Wrinkles
January 15, 2019Multiple treatments with an automated microneedling device (Dermapen) significantly reduces wrinkles resulting from both skin aging and smoking, according to a recent [...]

Mixed wavelengths effectively remove unwanted hair in all skin types
January 15, 2019Thunder MT from Quanta System, SpA (Milan, Italy), provides physicians with a powerful and unique hair removal modality that uses two laser [...]

Nebraska Would Expand Telehealth to Other Professions if New Bill Passes
January 14, 2019Nebraska Would Expand Telehealth to Other Professions if New Bill Passes A new bill introduced in the Nebraska Legislature would permit [...]

New Bill Would Give More Collaborating Options to Nurse Practitioners in Mississippi
January 14, 2019New Bill Would Give More Collaborating Options to Nurse Practitioners in Mississippi A new bill was filed last week in the [...]

Blow Struck to Non-Solicitation Agreements in California
January 11, 2019By Patrick O'Brien, J.D., Legal Coordinator for the American Med Spa AssociationGenerally, California prohibits the enforcement of most employee non-compete clauses with [...]

Medical Spa Show Exhibitor Spotlight: Alpine Pharmaceuticals
January 11, 2019The Medical Spa Show 2019–the only national trade show directly serving medical spas and non-invasive medical aesthetic practices–will connect medical spa owners [...]