• New Bill Calls for Supervision Standards for Physician Assistants in Colorado

    January 18, 2019

    A 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, 2019

    Med 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, 2019

    The 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, 2019

    A 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, 2019

    Generations 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, 2019

    Gerald 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, 2019

    Multiple 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, 2019

    Thunder 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, 2019

    Nebraska 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, 2019

    New 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, 2019

    By 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, 2019

    The Medical Spa Show 2019–the only national trade show directly serving medical spas and non-invasive medical aesthetic practices–will connect medical spa owners [...]