MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'injectables'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:30:14 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028383&cid=t_124350_106_f&fid=36682&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSutureForALiving%2F%7E3%2FI9hKO0PzosE%2Fguidelines-for-injector-in-aesthetic.html There is a great article in the “throw-away” MedEsthetics magazine (July/August 2011 issue) written by Padriac B. Deighan, MBA, JD, PhD.  You can read the entire article here (pp 16-20; online issue).   If you employ any practice extenders in your office or run a medical day spa, you will find the article useful. Deighan categorizes injectables in three ways:  botulinum toxins, dermal fillers, and sclerotherapy. Botulinum toxins are prescription only drugs which are available to physician offices and via pharmacies, but not directly to non-physicians.  In other words, a registered nurse can inject neurotoxins under physician supervision, but cannot acquire them. Botulinum toxin injection is considered a medical procedure which should only be provided in a medic... Suture for a Living blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028383 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:13:00 +0100 5028383 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4406033&cid=t_124350_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FbTa7z1VzYm8%2F One of the more closely watched sagas in the pharma biz these days is the dispute between Merck and Johnson & Johnson over a pair of rheumatoid arthritis meds - Remicade and the Simponi follow-up. Much is at stake because this is a big, albeit crowded market, and Remicade rings registers; last year, sales were $4.6 billion and Wall Street looks to Simponi also to become a reasonably big seller. Here’s the background: Schering-Plough had distribution rights to both drugs outside the US. But after Merck bought Schering-Plough, with which J&J had a co-marketing agreement, J&J claimed the takeover canceled their deal, citing a change-of-control provision. Merck argues its takeover was really a reverse merger and so J&J, which receives a portion of profits each year, f... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4406033 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:26:57 +0100 4406033 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4155257&cid=t_124350_106_f&fid=36682&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSutureForALiving%2F%7E3%2F1bpt2nwOzDw%2Finjectables-roundup.html I have come across some interesting articles recently regarding injectables.  Let’s begin the non-controversial one: Behind the Lines by Linda W. Lewis, Nov/Dec 2010 MedEsthetics (pp 32-.  This one notes several filler discontinuations: Johnson & Johnson (jnj.com) withdrew porcine collagen-based Evolence in November 2009; Allergan (allergan.com) discontinued its human and bovine collagen fillers, CosmoDerm, CosmoPlast, Zyderm and Zyplast, late last year and will stop distribution by the end of 2010. The article mentions the latest filler introductions: Juvederm XC from Allergan and Restylane-L and Perlane-L from Medicis (medicis.com).  These products differ from their predecessors only in the addition of lidocaine to the formulations. Much greater changes are on ... Suture for a Living blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4155257 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:14:00 +0100 4155257 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1439499&cid=t_124350_106_f&fid=34602&url=http%3A%2F%2Fplasticsurgeon.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fnow-offering-new-facial-filler-prevelle.html Dr. Hamori is pleased to now offer a new facial filler, at her Duxbury, MA plastic surgery + skin spa practice. Prevelle is another hyaluronic acid (HA) gel, that is injected just under the skin’s surface to temporarily fill wrinkles for a more youthful appearance. "It is similar to Restylane or Juvederm," according to Dr. Hamori. Prevelle's advantage over other injectables is that it contains Lidocaine, a local anesthetic, which reduces the pain of injection.Dr. Hamori has a wide assortment of injectibles for use in treating wrinkles and folds such as frown lines, forehead lines, periorbital lines (more commonly known as "crow's feet"), smile lines, oral commissures (marionette lines) and vertical lip lines.For a listing of facial fillers and injectibles offered by Dr. Hamori, see... What's New In Plastic Surgery? blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1439499 Tue, 13 May 2008 20:12:00 +0100 1439499 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1216489&cid=t_124350_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F07%2Fforcibly-injecting-medication-into-people-with-schizophrenia%2F So it looks like Eli Lilly’s new medication for schizophrenia, an injectable form of Zyprexa, will be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by the end of the year. Why do you need an injectable form of a medication when pills work just as well? When people don’t want to take their medications. Furious Seasons has the story, and comes down on the side of admitting that sometimes people do need to be forced into taking their medication: I’ve recently had to rethink my stance on the use of injectables because of a murder that was committed five blocks from my apartment, allegedly by an ex-convict with a long track record of extreme violence who was blowing off his meds and whom, for some reason, did not get admitted to a psych unit. The short story is that th... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1216489 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:00:12 +0100 1216489 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=935291&cid=t_124350_97_f&fid=35050&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmaGazette%2F%7E3%2F167030379%2Ffat_dissolving_injections_rece.html A consumer safety warning was issued by The Physicians Coalition for Injectable Saftey today. The Coalition warns that fat dissolving, fat melting, injection lipoysis and any other injectable treatments to reduce body fat are an unproven medical treatment."Injections to unwanted fat, using compounded pharmaceuticals, orherbal agents, claim a medical result -- the degradation (breakdown) of adipose (body fat) and it's excretion from the body," said Julius Few, MD, associate professor of plastic surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago and a member of the Coalition. "To date, the substances in these injections have not gone through FDA sanctioned clinical trials or the research necessary to document the medical results claimed or clearly i... PharmaGazette blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=935291 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:00:13 +0100 935291