Microdermabrasion

Microdermabrasion effectively reduces fine lines, crow's feet, age spots and acne scars by stimulating the production of skin cells and collagen, which gives the skin an overall fresh, healthy-looking glow. The doctor uses a tool that emits crystals onto the surface of the skin, resulting in a gentle abrasion or "polishing" process. Each treatment is 30 minutes to an hour long. The number of treatments recommended for maximal results can range between 5 to 12, spaced from 2 to 3 weeks apart. Results require periodic maintenance and follow up treatments after the initial regimen. Microdermabrasion has virtually no side effects. It is effective on all skin colors and types and does not require an anesthetic.

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Personalized Medicine

Personalized medicine is a medical model emphasizing the systematic use of information about an individual patient to select or optimize that patient's preventative and therapeutic care. Personalized medicine is the products and services that leverage the science of genomics and proteomics and capitalize on the trends toward wellness and consumerism to enable tailored approaches to prevention and care. Over the past century, medical care has centered on standards of care based on epidemiological studies of large cohorts. Personalized medicine seeks to provide an objective basis for consideration of such individual differences. Traditionally, personalized medicine has been limited to the consideration of a patient's family history, social circumstances, environment, and behaviors in tailoring individual care. Personalized medicine uses new methods of molecular analysis to manage a patient’s disease or predisposition toward a disease. It aims to achieve optimal medical outcomes by helping physicians and patients choose the disease management approaches likely to work best in the context of a patient’s genetic and environmental profile. Such approaches may include genetic screening programs that more precisely diagnose diseases and their sub-types, or help physicians select the type and dose of medication best suited to a certain group of patients. Personalized medicine is an extension of traditional approaches to understanding and treating illness. Since the beginning of the study of medicine, physicians have employed evidence found through observation to make a diagnosis or to prescribe treatment. In the modern concept of personalized medicine, the tools provided to the physician are more precise, probing not just the obvious, such as a tumor on a mammogram or cells under