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- ASPS AppBuilder offers practices revolutionary new marketing tool for plastic surgeons
- New tool allows plastic surgeons to create apps for their practices
- Should I stay or should I go? The hidden questions involved in choosing a practice model
- Young plastic surgeon discusses the pros and cons of various practice models
- Aesthetic Society rejects unification effort, elects to sever ties with ASPS
- ASAPS declines invitation to explore options, leaves door open for future
- New ASPS initiative seeks to help private practices survive and thrive
- New Management Services Organization designed to level playing field for private practitioners
- Survey shows strong support for ASPS/ASAPS unification
- Three-fourths of ASAPS members and 80 percent of ASPS members favor merging societies
- PRS enters expanding open access arena with launch of spinoff journal
- New PRS-Global Open journal now accepting submissions
- FDA approves new silicone-gel breast implant from Allergan
- National Breast Registry data key to post-approval studies
- Global health, plastic surgery and helping in Haiti
- Medical student recounts medical mission to earthquake-ravaged nation
- Affordable Care Act's “sunshine” rule increases transparency in health care
- Device, pharmaceutical manufacturers required to begin reporting payments to physicians
- Congress avoids 27 percent Medicare physician payment cut
- Congress passes legislation to avoid "fiscal cliff;" ASPS seeks repeal of flawed SGR formula
- Make the most of your money: Financial expert offers advice for plastic surgeons
- MoneyZen Wealth management founder Manisha Thakor to speak during Women Plastic Surgeons retreat in Las Vegas
- Best abstract presentations honored in New Orleans
- Best abstract presentations honored in New Orleans
- Nobel laureate Joseph Murray, plastic surgeon and transplant pioneer, dies at 93
- Dr. Murray performed the first kidney transplant in 1954, leading to hundreds of thousands of lives saved
- Women Plastic Surgeons to focus on finance in Las Vegas
- ASPS Women Plastic Surgeons retreat will be held in conjunction with Expanding Horizons in January
- Court clears path for sale of new dermal filler
- Merz Aesthetics gets OK to begin marketing filler, toxin remains on hold until January
- Fernando Ortiz-Monasterio, MD, dies at age 89 in Mexico City
- Prolific plastic surgeon treated 24,000 of children over more than 50 years
- Past ABPS, PSRC president Erle Peacock dies at 86
- Plastic surgeon-turned-lawyer defended physicians in medical liability cases
- Retired plastic surgeon, wife murdered in Yemen
- ASPS Life Member Raheed Abud Side, MD, practiced in Texas
- Eminent French plastic surgeon Daniel Marchac, MD, 1932-2012
- Renowned surgeon studied under Tessier, Millard, Converse and Cronin
- ASPS staff show support for BRA Day
- The ASPS Executive Office in Arlington Heights, Ill., turned pink on Oct. 17
- Is your web-content manager protecting patients' identification?
- Ten patients sue when identities linked to breast aug photos online
- Jewel teams with ASPS to educate, empower women in need of breast reconstruction
- 10 questions with the singer/songwriter -- and Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day spokesperson
- Breast Cancer Patient Education Act introduced in House
- Proposal seeks to make U.S. women aware of their breast reconstruction options
- Largest study of breast reconstruction outcomes seeks pedicle TRAMs
- MROC study seeks to provide definitive answers for patients of most common breast reconstruction procedures
- Breast restoration center partners with ASPS, Jewel for BRA Day
- Proposal seeks to make U.S. women aware of their breast reconstruction options
- ASPS to host Regenerative Medicine Summit in Miami in March 2013
- ASPS launches new Regenerative Medicine Task Force, plans March 2013 summit in Miami
- State Legislation: Truth-in-advertising proposals for physicians continue to gain momentum
- More states seek to battle 'White Coat Deception' by requiring doctors to identify their training
- Nan Rees, wife of Thomas Rees, MD, passes peacefully in her sleep at age 85
- Tireless AMREF volunteer was married to plastic surgeon pioneer for 63 years
- PRS will require one-time sign-in to access via iPad app
- One-time log-in will be required beginning with the July issue
- ACS/ASPS scholarship winner says specialty input on health policy is vital
- Robert Havlik, MD, Indianapolis, will attend executive leadership program at Brandeis U.
- Baltimore emerging as hub for face transplantation
- Following UMD success, Hopkins chief tells PSN: "We are ready."
- Fighting negative online comments can lead to bigger problems
- Once criticism is posted online, it is difficult to erase
- CareCredit teams with plastic surgeons for ‘25 years of Caring'
- Company offers patients with CareCredit cards chance to win $25,000 through May
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- New products, service discounts drive AMP enrollment to 2,500
- AMP offers ASPS members serious savings on the products used they use in their practices
- ASPS teams with Fab Over 50 website
- Partnership offers ASPS members exclusive opportunity to connect with 'fabulous' population of potential patients
- PSEN celebrates its first year with ‘Expert Chat' series debut
- PSEN editor Al Aly, MD, will field questions about plastic surgery after massive weight loss
- TDC warns online 'daily deals' could expose plastic surgeons to risk
- Physicians are advised to check state laws before offering e-coupons as marketing tool
- ASPS Education team earns highest ACCME accreditation distinction
- ACCME awards ASPS education rare "Accreditation with Commendation" honor
- Court rules toxin manufacturer violated Trade Secrets Act
- Federal judge bars Merz from selling Xeomin injectable for 10 months
- FDA approves new silicone-gel breast implant
- Sientra becomes third U.S. manufacturer with FDA-approved silicone breast implant
- City proclaims March 21 as breast reconstruction advocacy day
- Vancouver, Wash., Mayor Tim Leavitt makes a 'BRAVE' proclamation
- Egyptian lawmaker resigns after lying about rhinoplasty
- Lawmaker attempts to hide cosmetic surgery by claiming bandages, bruising a result of attack
- ASPS conducts important review of complex repair CPT codes
- Plastic surgeons encouraged to participate in RUC Physician Work Survey
- PRS iPad app surpasses 10,000 downloads – and counting
- Popularity of journal iPad app continues to soar
- PSF, ASPS partner with FDA to create comprehensive ALCL registry
- Registry seeks to learn more about potential association between breast implants and ALCL
- Women claim breast implants saved their lives in separate incidents
- Breast implants credited for saving lives in stabbing, auto crash
- HHS Announces Intent to Delay ICD-10 Compliance Date
- CMS to "re-examine pace" of implementation
- Society backs proposed federal rule on adding hand, face transplant to organ registry
- ASPS supports proposal to expand donations for vascularized composite allotransplantation
- PSN launches weekly newsletter
- PSN Connection goes weekly with links to breaking news and top stories
- New Jersey repeals cosmetic tax
- Gov. Chris Christie signs legislation to eliminate 6 percent tax on cosmetic procedures
- ASPS member leads team that excised 180-pound tumor
- McKay McKinnon, MD, removes 180-pound tumor from the leg of a man in Vietnam
- Model accused of using breast, buttocks implants to smuggle cocaine
- Woman arrested at Rome airport with more than 5 lbs. of concealed drugs
- ACS/ASPS offer health policy scholarship – deadline Feb. 1
- ACS/ASPS offer $8,000 scholarship to attend Brandeis health policy program
- ASCFS/Komedyplast research grant applications due March 1
- Grant available from organization that blends comedy with craniofacial surgery to treat children in need
- ALERT: ASPS and French Society working to monitor PIP silicone breast implants
- ASPS and the French Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery keeping track of PIP implants in France
- ALERT: CMS extends HIPAA version 5010 Electronic Billing Transactions deadline
- CMS postpones its rule requiring providers to switch to HIPAA 5010 standards for electronic transactions to March 31.
- Plastic surgeon named ASSH president – first since ’98
- ASPS member Andrew W.P. Lee, MD, elected to lead ASSH
- Suspect in gruesome buttocks lift "procedure" arrested
- Suspect allegedly injected woman with cement, tire-sealant
- Plastic surgeon, Nobel Prize nominee Sharadkumar Dicksheet, MD, dies at 80
- Sharadkumar Dicksheet, MD, helped thousands through Project India
- Member Alert: Internet scams targeting plastic surgeons abound
- Perpetrators are getting more creative and sophisticated with email scams
- Plastic surgery pioneer Bernard Sarnat, MD, dies at 99
- Plastic surgery pioneer Bernard Sarnat, MD, dies at 99
- Plastic surgeon receives NIH grant to study the decision-making process of breast reconstruction patients
- ASPS member Clara Lee, MD, MPP, has been awarded a five-year career development award from the National Institutes of Health.
- ASMS offers open access to fall, winter newsletters
- ASPS members welcome to download fall and winter issues of Maxillofacial News
- PlastyPAC speaker discusses health care reform, economy
- Economist Keith Hennessey discussed the current economic climate as well as an analysis of how the new health care reform legislation will impact both the deficit and the long-term U.S. economic stability.
- Past PSF President Mary McGrath, MD, gains ACS Distinguished Service Award
- Past PSF President Mary McGrath, MD, San Francisco, has been named recipient of the American College of Surgeon's 2011 Distinguished Service Award.
- Stabbing suspect tries to alter looks
- A suspect in a 2009 stabbing attack underwent cosmetic surgery to avoid arrest
- Stunning upset in Reconstructive Bowl
- Youth would be served as the third annual ASPS Reconstructive Bowl at Plastic Surgery 11 came down to the wire in Denver.
- FDA panel reaffirms safety, efficacy of silicone implants – and looks to the future
- The FDA's General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee conducted a hearing on Aug. 30-31 in Gaithersburg, Md., to evaluate the progress of long-term post-approval studies (PAS) for silicone gel-filled breast implants.
- NIH Pioneer, New Innovator grant applications now being accepted
- The National Institutes of Health makes grants to exceptionally creative scientists through the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award and New Innovator Award programs.
- ASPS, Provista partner to offer savings to plastic surgeons
- New Access Medical Purchasing Program to launch at ASPS annual meeting
- Top economist to speak at PlastyPAC luncheon in Denver
- Former White House economist Keith Hennessey headlines PlastyPAC donor luncheon
- ASPS launches new Facebook pages
- ASPS finds new homes on Facebook – one for the public, another for members
- Did 190 mph paintball rupture breast implant?
- 26-year-old claims close-range paintball shot ruptured her breast implant
- Singer-songwriter Jewel to perform charity concert at annual meeting
- Jewel named national spokesperson for inaugural Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day
- Nip, tuck, bark
- UK insurer pays more than $2.4 million for plastic surgical procedures for pets
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- One-third of rhinoplasty patients have body dysmorphic symptoms
- Study results may help guide future patient selection
- More Chinese high school students seek plastic surgery
- 80 percent of plastic surgery patients were in high school
- Breast augmentation leads to drug bust
- Neighbors' suspicion reveals criminal activity
- Plastic surgeon renews Irishman's hope
- Patient with rare Otofacial Syndrome seeks reconstructive surgery
- Past PSF president named interim vice dean of OSU College of Medicine
- Robert Ruberg, MD to fill role on Aug 1
- AMA passes Resolution 716 - payment for OBS facility fees
- June 21 victory for plastic surgeons
- TSA warns against surgically implanted bombs
- Terrorist groups pursuing ways to further conceal explosives
- Did North Korea's ruling heir have plastic surgery to look like dad, grandpa?
- Kim Jong Eun's facial changes spark speculation
- Three charged in S.C. for aggravated assault, battery after botched liposuction
- ASPS member Ralph Cozart, MD provides emergency medical care to victim
- Book sheds light on philosophy behind cosmetic surgery
- Author Robin Yuan, MD challenges patients to better understand themselves
- Plastic surgery raffles raising concerns among UK health groups
- Raffle hosted by Sarah Barge, UK's "Real Life Barbie"
- FDA issues white paper on silicone breast implant safety
- ASPS continues to collaborate with the FDA
- China hospital offers free cosmetic surgery to student employees
- Hospital exchanges procedures for one-month work contract
- FBI fugitive featured in PSN ad nabbed in California
- James "Whitey" Bulger caught after 15 years on the run
- Plastic surgery pioneer D. Ralph Millard Jr., MD, dies at age 92
- Dr. Millard revolutionized cleft lip and palate repair
- Chimp attack victim receives face transplant
- Full face transplant recipient is third in the US
- ASPS Call for Experts to Serve on Breast Reconstruction Guideline Work Group
- Apply for work group online
- Oregon lawmakers close loophole in breast reconstruction coverage
- The passage is called a "no-brainer"
- Past ASPS President John Canady, MD, accepts medical director post for Mentor
- Canady moves on after 21 years at U of Iowa
- Viewpoint: The unknown truth behind economic credentialing
- A letter to the editor on credentialing, outpatient surgery and the health care crisis
- Plastic surgeon wins AMA leadership award
- ASPS member Lynn Jeffers, MD is honored
- Country's first full face transplant meets the press
- 26-year-old transplant recipient recovering well
- ASPS offers compliance guidelines for member interaction with industry
- Standards detail protocols for gifts, speakers, industry support and more
- Flesh-and-blood ‘Barbie' lands in Guinness World Records
- Patient has record-setting 52 procedures
- PSRC membership - and upcoming annual meeting - can benefityoung plastic surgeons
- Annual Meeting to take place April 28-30, 2011
- Revamped ASPS website debuts
- New plasticsurgery.org offers enhanced form, function
- Plastic Surgery Education Network launches
- An education portal for the entire specialty
- Texas man receives first full face transplant in U.S.
- Brigham and Women's Hospital plastic surgery team performs the surgery
- Plastic surgeons' EMR use lighter than expected
- More than half of all plastic surgeons don't use an EMR
- Boa constrictor meets its match, and it's silicone
- Snake bites an Israeli model during a photo shoot
- Merger between Operation Smile and The Smile Train derailed
- Merger is halted by board of directors on March 7
- Two German doctors face manslaughter charges in surgery-related death of adult film star
- Carolin Berger, also known as "Sexy Cora," dies at 23
- Best of PSN: Letters from Iraq
- Iraqi plastic surgeons persevere despite enormous challenges
- Plastic surgery rebounding with economy
- Procedures up 5 percent from 2009
- FDA issues safety signal on ALCL & breast implants
- ASPS, FDA to collaborate on breast implant registry
- Argentina government tracks breast implants to collect back taxes
- $10 million in related taxes may have gone unreported in 2008 and 2009
- State-level plastic surgery advocacy was active in 2010
- Plastic surgery legislation covered by state
- BEST OF PSN: Extreme body modification culture pushes surgical, ethical boundaries
- Where is the line between cosmetic surgery and body modification?
- Komedyplast offers craniofacial research grant
- Application deadline on March 15
- Congress extends Medicare rates through 2011
- New legislation passed by the US Congress
- Congress passes legislation to minimize impact of Red Flags Rule on physicians
- New legislation passed by the US Congress
- AMA recommends careful evaluation of participation in Medicare
- Deadline for participation status change is December 31, 2010
- Plastic surgeons win lieutenant governor, county commissioner seats
- Jeff Colyer, MD wins race
- New reality TV show to reveal bride to groom after “extreme” plastic surgery
- 12 women will compete to have their wish list of surgeries performed pre-ceremony
- OSU trustees confer departmental status on plastic surgery
- ASPS Member Surgeon Michael Miller, MD is named department chair
- Specialty’s worldwide leaders gather for summit in Toronto
- View the international speakers' presentations
- ASPS/PSEF Now Accepting Committee Applications
- Deadline for applications is May 31, 2011
- ASMS offers craniofacial scholarship
- Deadline for the application is November 15, 2010
- Double-arm transplant performed in Turkey
- The nation's first double-arm transplant took place on Sept. 25
- Florida plastic surgeon running for county commissioner
- Chris Constance, MD of Punta Gorda, Fla. aspires to elective public office.
- The 49-year-old plastic surgery resident
- Vincent Laurence, MD announced he was entering medical school at 44
- Candidate builds war chest with breast implants
- Venezuelan National Assemblyman raising funds with surgical raffle
- Defending patients from the new ‘superbug’
- New strain of bacteria highly resistant to antibiotics found in India and Pakistan
- New York passes law mandating disclosure of breast reconstruction options
- Gov. David Paterson signed the new law on Aug. 15
- ‘Beauty Bandit’ suspect arrested in Miami restaurant
- Patient skips out on the bill for Botox and skin products
- Plastic surgeon sues malicious Internet ‘reviewers’ for damages
- A California plastic surgeon takes her online defamation case to court
- Plastic surgeon's recent trip to Haiti reveals ongoing need for care
- Chronic shortage of disaster relief reported by United Nations
- Plastic surgeon to run for Kansas lieutenant governor
- Sen. Jeffrey Colyer, MD could become the first plastic surgeon in the office
- Plastic surgeon treats open leg fracture at 35,000 feet
- A sharp drop leaves a flight attendant in need of help
- New group practice report reveals multiple integration opportunities for surgeons
- ASPS task force examines integration strategies
- Best of PSN: The 10 Biggest Plastic Surgery Stories of the Decade 2000-2009
- PSN ranks the 10 biggest stories of the past decade
- Plastic surgeons responding to Haiti earthquake share horrors, triumphs
- ASPS members share their experiences in Haiti
- The Future of Fat: Plastic surgery-driven stem cell research
- Will plastic surgery research revolutionize medical care?
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