• FDA Announces New Initiatives on Breast Implant Safety

    May 8, 2019

    A month after hearing from plastic surgeons, patients and other stakeholders on the topic of breast implant safety, the FDA has announced [...]

  • Multispecialty Task Force Calls on FDA to Expedite Oversight of Cosmetic Stem Cell Treatments

    May 7, 2019

    An editorial published in the April issue of Aesthetic Surgery Journal makes an urgent plea to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [...]

  • The Complexities of Non-Physician Compensation

    May 6, 2019

    Perhaps the most important finding from the first-ever survey of non-physician aesthetic provider compensation is that almost no two physician extenders are [...]

  • Novel Treatment Superficially Delivers Nanofat for Facial Rejuvenation

    May 3, 2019

    Plastic surgeons in Belgium say a novel treatment using microneedling to evenly deliver nanofat superficially into the skin rejuvenates but doesn’t volumize [...]

  • Payment Options for Maximizing Your Med Spa Guests’ Treatments

    May 2, 2019

    By Karen Zupko, on behalf of CareCreditHelp grow your business by promoting available payment options. Present patients with choices at multiple points [...]

  • Five Critical Strategies for Creating a Profitable Med Spa

    May 2, 2019

    The three main areas of any business are finance, marketing and operations. They either work together synergistically for success and profitability – [...]

  • Unsafe Practices by New Mexico Aesthetician Lead to Second HIV Infection

    May 1, 2019

    By Alex R. Thiersch, JD, CEO of the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa), and Patrick O'Brien, JD, legal coordinator for the American [...]

  • New Technologies Advance Transdermal Delivery Systems

    May 1, 2019

    In medical aesthetics, transdermal devices, or penetration enhancers, that use microneedles, rollers, dermoelectroporation and other novel modalities offer practitioners an efficient and [...]

  • Fibroblast-Seeded HA Filler Maintains Outcomes for Up to Six Years

    April 30, 2019

    Patients who received a hyaluronic acid (HA)-based filler seeded with cultured fibroblasts for volume loss are maintaining their outcomes for up to [...]

  • The History of Aesthetic Lasers

    April 29, 2019

    The origins of laser technology go back to 1900, when Max Planck, a German theoretical physicist, discovered the relationship between energy and [...]

  • Find Financial Success with a Spa Audit

    April 26, 2019

    In the spa industry, there is a lot of room for analyzing revenues based on the type of spa and where the [...]

  • Telemedicine (R)evolution

    April 25, 2019

    As tools such as online banking, shopping and travel booking have become commonplace, more and more consumers expect the same convenience from [...]