Steps to Freedom: The Journey to Practice Independence for Advanced Providers
February 22, 2021By Patrick O'Brien, JD, Legal Coordinator, American Med Spa AssociationIn recent years, advanced providers—physician assistants (PAs), nurse practitioners (NPs) and other advanced [...]
Six of the Finer Details About Vitamin C You Should Know
February 12, 2021By Candace Noonan, DermaConceptsThe skin care industry is nurturing some very well educated and researched consumers. Researching a specific ingredient or idea [...]
Can I Open a Mobile Medical Spa?
January 13, 2021By Patrick O'Brien, JD, Legal Coordinator, American Med Spa AssociationAs we enter a new year, the worst of the coronavirus pandemic will [...]
Allergan Aesthetics Enters into Option to Acquire Cypris Medical
January 13, 2021Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, has announced that it has entered into a warrant agreement with Cypris Medical, a privately held medical [...]
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon Dies of COVID-19 After Patient’s Cough
January 12, 2021Dr. Payman Simoni, a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, has died from complications resulting from the coronavirus, TMZ reported. He was 50 [...]
New Bills Would Bring Independent Practice to APRNs in Mississippi
January 12, 2021New bills filed in Mississippi for the current session would reduce practice restrictions for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). Senator Kevin Blackwell [...]
AmSpa Acquires the Academy for Injection Anatomy (AIA)
January 11, 2021The American Med Spa Association (AmSpa) today announced that it has acquired the Academy for Injection Anatomy (AIA), a clinical training program [...]
AmSpa Acquires the Academy for Injection Anatomy (AIA)
January 11, 2021The American Med Spa Association (AmSpa) today announced that it has acquired the Academy for Injection Anatomy (AIA), a clinical training program [...]
HansBiomed Assessed Penalty by South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
January 8, 2021By Patrick O'Brien, JD, Legal Coordinator, American Med Spa AssociationHansBiomed, a South Korea-based medical device and biologics manufacturer, has been fined and [...]
AmSpa Updates COVID-19 Consent Form to Cover Filler Reactions
January 7, 2021AmSpa has updated the COVID-19 pandemic acknowledgement form in its intake forms package to include language addressing reactions to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine [...]
Letter from the CEO: Let’s Talk About the Vaccine and Filler Issue
January 5, 2021By Alex R. Thiersch, JD, CEO of the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa)As many of us return to work in medical aesthetics [...]
FDA: Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine May Cause Side Effects in People with Facial Fillers
January 4, 2021The FDA advisory committee reviewing the new Moderna vaccine noted a specific side effect involving several trial participants who have cosmetic facial [...]
