Introducing Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine: The Best of Both Worlds

Integrative Medicine ‘the Best of Both Worlds’

As most of us in South Africa are only too well aware, we are experiencing severe, intractable problems in providing effective and affordable healthcare for all our citizens. The costs incurred in diagnosis, drug and other therapies, finance and administration are escalating strongly, in common with most countries. Unfortunately, this is happening at a time when more and more demands are being ...

The Best of Both Worlds

Open networks give actors non-redundant information that is diverse, while closed networks offer redundant information that is easier to interpret. Integrating arguments about network structure and the similarity of actors' knowledge, we propose two types of network configurations that combine diversity and ease of interpretation. Closed-diverse networks offer diversity in actors' knowledge dom...

The best of both worlds.

The best of both worlds

JACK SCHNEIDER (jschneid@holycrossedu, @edu_historian) is an assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., and director of research for the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment (MCIEA). JOE FELDMAN ([email protected]) is CEO of Crescendo Education Group, Oakland, Calif., and is a former high school teacher, principal, and dis...

Role of Cultured Skin Fibroblasts in Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery

The skin is the largest tissue of man with several functions. Cosmetics/cosmeceuticals agents always are needed to be evaluated for their detrimental effects on the skin. Nowadays, the therapeutic potential of stem cells has and fibroblasts have increased the hope for a successful cell therapy in aesthetic medicine. Stem cells are unspecialized cells capable of renewing themselves through cell ...