Welcome to the our Aesthetic Medicine news roundup, 2 June 2023.
Fungal Meningitis Outbreak In Mexico Kills 2 After Cosmetic Surgeries. Here’s What We Know—And Symptoms And Treatment.
A probable outbreak of fungal meningitis—an infection that causes inflammation near the brain and spinal cord—in Mexican medical clinics has left two Americans dead and over 200 infected, causing the U.S. and Mexico to ask the World Health Organization to issue a public health emergency declaration.
Artificial intelligence has discovered a new antibiotic in two hours
Artificial intelligence has enormous potential in the medical field. An important confirmation comes from uno studio del Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mit) of Cambridge, of theUniversity at Harvard and ofUniversit McMaster di Hamilton, in Canada, published in the magazine Nature Chemical Biology .
International Travel For Plastic Surgery Is Getting More Common – But Is It Really Safe?
If it seems like everyone and their mom has had plastic surgery, that’s because cosmetic procedures have become almost as mainstream as facials and bikini waxes.
Study Reveals How Botox Breaches Brain Cells
Researchers have cracked the mystery behind how the Botulinum neurotoxin type-A, also known as Botox, infiltrates neurons.
Does body contouring increase long-term weight loss after bariatric surgery? New findings
For patients with massive weight loss after bariatric surgery, subsequent body contouring to remove excess skin is not itself associated with long-term weight loss, reports a study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
You’ll Come Back Looking Like a Whole New Person
Inside Seoul’s booming plastic surgery tourism industry. Even before you grab your bags from the carousels at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport, you can fit your face into a spectral imaging machine to get your skin qualitatively analyzed for its health relative to your age.
