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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.
- PRS iPad app surpasses 6,000 downloads – and counting
- Popularity of journal iPad app continues to soar
- 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
- 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
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