Procedures and Therapies

Deep conditioning treatments: facials for your hair (Los Angeles Times)

17 May 2008

Salon treatments are going the way of spa services. Japanese tea ceremony and shiatsu scalp massage, anyone? IT IS THE latest in exotic hair care: a Shu Uemura intense hair conditioning "ritual" at Luxelab in Santa Monica. It is, they say, based on the Japanese tea ceremony.

Manufacturer Removes Remaining Stocks Of Trasylol (Medical News Today)

16 May 2008

Background: On Nov. 5, 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. agreed to an FDA-requested marketing suspension of Trasylol, a drug used to control bleeding during heart surgery. At that time, preliminary results from a Canadian study suggested an increased risk for death compared to two other drugs used to control bleeding.

More women choosing mastectomy (Chicago Tribune)

16 May 2008

Increase in procedure coincides with a doubling in use of MRI scans for breast cancer patients Signaling the reversal of a long decline in the use of mastectomy for breast cancer patients, a new study indicates more women are opting for the operation in part because more patients are getting MRI scans that can find additional tumors.