News Alert about Restylane-L & Perlane-L
Now there’s a more comfortable solution for your patients who are hesitant to start or maintain their treatment with Restylane or Perlane because of perceived discomfort during injections. New Restylan-L and Perlane-L contain 0.3% lidocaine to help reduce pain during and after injection.
In randomized, double-blind, split-face, multicenter clinical studied, subjects received Restylane or Perlane in one nasolabial fold (NLF) and Restylane-L or Perlane-L, respectively, in the contralateral NLF. Injections were made in the deep dermis and, in most cases, the linear injection technique was used. Subjects rated their level of pain according to a 100mm Visual Analog Scale ( VAS)...
Study: Many Sunscreens May Be Accelerating Cancer
National Cancer Institute
Graph of melanoma of the skin rates from 1975 to 2006. APC stands for annual percent change and AAPC stands for average annual percent change.
But in the U.S., there is currently no sunscreen that meets all of these criteria. European countries have more chemical combinations to offer, but in the U.S. the major choice is between the "chemical" sunscreens, which have inferior stability, penetrate the skin and may disrupt the body's hormone systems, and "mineral" sunscreens zinc and titanium dioxide.
Increasingly, as AOL News reported in March, the industry is using titanium dioxide that is made nanosized, which...