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Couples Stay Forever Young with His and Her Aesthetic Gifts for Valentine’s Day

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Mastering Advances in Dermatology

GREENSBORO, N.C., Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mastering Advances in Dermatology: Beyond Skin Deep, a new conference, designed to bring together dermatologists with specific areas of expertise, will convene in Greensboro, NC on March 31-April 1, 2012 for a day and a half summit.   The goal of the conference is to provide increased knowledge for the practicing dermatologist, dermatology PAs and nurses as well as residents and fellows, by presenting the latest information in key areas of medical dermatology such as malignancies, acne, infectious disease, psoriasis, pediatric dermatology and OTC agents.  An aesthetic workshop that will review facial injectable products with live patient demonstrations will also be offered. 

According to Program Chairman Joseph L. Jorizzo, Professor, Former Founding Chair, Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC and Adjunct Professor, Department of Dermatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, "While there are many excellent dermatology meetings available, the focus of this conference will be on specific clinical challenges that we all face and to hear from experts; in a very succinct manner; their approach and treatment algorithms for dealing with these challenges. Both practicing dermatologists, those who assist in their practice and residents/fellows will benefit from the information presented." 

The agenda has been carefully developed to provide attendees with an opportunity to hear pearls of knowledge, based on the clinical experiences of the faculty.   Lectures are organized by category, are no more than 15 minutes in length and each session finishes with a rigorous panel discussion with time for QA.  Up to 8.5 hours of CME credits will be available for attendees.

The prestigious faculty includes, Victoria Barrio, MD, Brian Berman, MD, PhD, Neal Bhatia, MD,  Robert E. Clark, MD, PhD, Sue Ellen Cox, MD, James Q. Del Rosso, DO, Luis Diaz, MD, Zoe Draelos, MD, Steven Feldman, MD, Alan Fleisher, Jr, MD, Timothy Flynn, MD, Gloria F. Graham, MD, Mark Lebwohl, MD, Elise Olsen, MD, David M. Pariser, MD, Theodore Rosen, MD, Lawrence Schachner, MD and Bruce Theirs, MD

About Mastering Advances in Dermatology: Beyond Skin Deep:  The 1st Annual Conference is designed to bring faculty with years of clinical and research experience together to discuss challenges and solutions in medical and aesthetic dermatology.

For more information about registration for the 1st Annual Mastering Advances in Dermatology: Beyond Skin Deep conference, please visit https://xmedicacme.com/beyondskindeep or contact info@xMedicaCME.com

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Beauty Breakthroughs From the American Academy of Dermatology

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Dr. Angela Bowers-Plott of Southlake Dermatology Completes Workshop for Safe Facial Injections

Full face surgical anatomy and injection course designed to improve the safety of botulinum neurotoxin and dermal filler injection procedures

(PRWEB) February 07, 2012

As one of the top providers of cosmetic injectable fillers in Tarrant County, Southlake Dermatology is known for providing safe, non invasive treatment of fine lines and wrinkles through the administration of products such as Botox, Dysport, Restylane, Radiesse and JuveDerm. To continue to be a leader in the most advanced cosmetic dermatology services, Southlake Dermatology founder Dr. Angela Bowers-Plott attended the Human Cadaver Facial Dissection Workshop January 14 at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Designed specifically for dermatologists, plastic surgeons and ophthalmologists who perform facial aesthetic procedures, the workshop was a procedural anatomy course providing practicing physicians hands-on experience exploring the complex, three-dimensional anatomic structures of the face and neck to determine the safest and most effective placement of dermal fillers and neurotoxins. Working in small groups on human cadavers, the participants completed a dissection of the face and neck, identifying the danger zone nerves and critical arteries that present potential unacceptable outcomes for patients if these fragile structures are damaged. Participants then injected dermal fillers into the cadavers to immediately correlate the post injection appearance of the skin with the exact anatomic location of the filler.

According to Dr. Bowers-Plott, the information is extremely important to ensure proper administration of dermal fillers and neurotoxins by a medical professional, and to give patients the best results. In addition, Dr. Bowers-Plott continues to try to make the public aware that many health care providers are now offering this type of cosmetic procedure without the necessary training to ensure a good outcome.

"Although the administration of Botox and injectable fillers is quick, it should be done with extreme precision and with the supervision of a physician. There have been many patients come into Southlake Dermatology after being treated elsewhere by estheticians with filler, but never seen by the doctor. These cases will be reported to the medical board, but the estheticians are not sanctioned," explained Dr. Bowers-Plott, who is also certified by Medicis to train other physicians on the use of Restylane and Dysport. "Our first priority is always patient safety, which is why I attended this workshop. I can now share the knowledge with the rest of my staff."

The workshop was presented by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Docent, LLC, in collaboration with University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

For more information about cosmetic dermatology services at Southlake Dermatology, go to http://www.southlakedermatology.com or call 817-756-1233.

About Southlake Dermatology

Southlake Dermatology was established in 1999 and moved to its current, state-of-the-art-facility in 2006. Founded and lead by Angela Bowers-Plott, M.D, Southlake Dermatology provides medical, surgical and cosmetic services to treat and heal conditions of the skin including: anti-aging solutions, aesthetic and acne facials, hair laser, skin cancer, mole and tattoo removal, and skincare products which are available at http://www.MDSkinProducts.com. For more information, go to http://www.southlakedermatology.com or call 817-251-6500.

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Audax Group acquires Advanced Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery

Audax Group announced it has completed the acquisition of Advanced Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery ("ADCS"). Headquartered in Maitland, Florida, ADCS is a dermatology-focused physician practice management company, with 53 company-affiliated dermatology clinics in Florida and Ohio providing clinical, cosmetic, and pathology services. ADCS also provides billing and coding management services for third-party dermatology practices under the Ameriderm trade name. Dr. Matt Leavitt and management will remain significant shareholders in ADCS.

“We are excited to be working with Audax Group. Their operational expertise and successful track record working with multi-site healthcare companies will be instrumental as we continue to build regional density and expand our service offering.”

Geoffrey S. Rehnert, Co-CEO of Audax Group, said "ADCS is a multi-site provider of specialty healthcare services in a fragmented and growing market. We look forward to working with Dr. Leavitt and the ADCS management team to build the company through add-on acquisitions, greenfield expansion, and by scaling the Ameriderm platform through sales force optimization."

Dr. Matt Leavitt, Founder and CEO of ADCS, said "We are excited to be working with Audax Group. Their operational expertise and successful track record working with multi-site healthcare companies will be instrumental as we continue to build regional density and expand our service offering."

Brentwood Capital Advisors, LLC advised ADCS. Ropes Gray served as counsel to Audax Group. NXT Capital provided debt financing to support the transaction.

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Valeant Pharmaceuticals Completes Divestiture of Generic Dermatology Products to Mylan

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Mylan buys 2 dermatology drugs from Valeant

NEW YORK (AP) — Mylan Inc. said Monday it bought two generic dermatology products from Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.

Mylan said it acquired the rights to generic versions of Valeant's topical acne treatment BenzaClin and Efudex, a treatment for actinic keratosis, which is a type of precancerous skin lesion. Mylan already made the generic version of BenzaClin through a licensing agreement, and the deal gives it the right to make and sell an authorized generic version of Efudex as well. The companies did not disclose terms of the deal.

Valeant was required to sell the drugs as part of its deal to buy Dermik, the dermatology division of French drugmaker Sanofi. Mylan said sales of BenzaClin as an acne treatment totaled $205 million in 2011, while sales of Efudex totaled $79 million.

Shares of Mylan lost 19 cents to $22.25 in afternoon trading, while Valeant stock picked up 14 cents to $50.64.

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Audax Group Announces the Acquisition of Advanced Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery

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Mission Pharmacal Acquires Eletone Cream from Ferndale Healthcare

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SAN ANTONIO -- Mission Pharmacal Company recently acquired the prescription barrier cream Eletone® Cream, from Ferndale Healthcare, Inc. of Ferndale, Michigan. Eletone Cream is a non-steroidal, barrier cream approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the long term treatment of atopic dermatitis, an inflammatory, chronically relapsing, non-contagious and pruritic or itchy skin disorder.

While the addition of Eletone Cream will strengthen Mission's pediatric product offerings, it also enhances the company's targeted expansion in the dermatology market. To augment and support its sales efforts, Mission has also created a dermatology focused sales team. In addition to promoting Eletone, this team will be promoting and selling three other dermatology products, Ovace®, Avar®, and Texacort®. This new team was launched through Alamo Pharma Services, a recently introduced wholly owned subsidiary of Mission Pharmacal, established to provide increased operational and human resources support.

"Mission Pharmacal's recent advancements in dermatology and pediatrics provide a perfect platform for the promotion of Eletone Cream," states Terry Herring, president of Mission Pharmacal's Commercial Operations. "This product has an established market share and solid brand identity. Our intention is to use the Mission dermatology sales team to support this and other dermatology focused products over time."

"From a pure business perspective, the strategic acquisition of Eletone Cream demonstrates Mission's commitment to our core therapeutic areas," notes Neill Walsdorf, Jr., president of Mission Pharmacal Company. "It adds a product that can be promoted by both our pediatric and dermatology sales teams."

About Mission Pharmacal

Mission Pharmacal is a privately held pharmaceutical company based in San Antonio, Texas. For more than 65 years, the company has been committed to meeting the unique healthcare needs of women throughout all stages of life, pediatric patients, and those persons dealing with urologic and dermatologic conditions. The company has a proven track record of identifying unmet healthcare needs and developing both innovative prescription and over-the-counter products to meet these needs. Using only the purest ingredients, Mission Pharmacal provides physicians and consumers with the highest quality pharmaceutical and dietary supplement products on the market today. Mission Pharmacal is a proud national supporter of the March of Dimes Foundation, whose mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. For more information about the company, visit www.missionpharmacal.com.

About Ferndale Healthcare, Inc.

Ferndale Healthcare^TM specializes in markets encompassing disease states ranging from benign anorectal disorders to skin conditions. Their mission is to provide high-quality, value-added products that help patients get back to what matters most in their lives-living well. Ferndale Healthcare offers a wide array of effective products including both over-the-counter and prescription formulations. They are proud that so many of their products are leaders in there respective categories and that they continue to maintain that leadership position. For more information about the company, visit www.ferndalehealthcare.com.

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Doctor Cheating Warnings Expand To Dermatology

Process Of Sharing Questions Post-Exam Known As 'Recalls,' 'Airplane Notes'

(CNN) -- Doctors studying to become dermatologists have, for years, shared exam questions by memorizing and writing them down after the test to become board certified, CNN has confirmed.

Reports of the use of what are known as "airplane notes" comes after revelations last month that radiology residents around the country for years also have used what are known as "recalls" to prepare for the written exam, which is one step in becoming certified by the American Board of Radiology.

In the wake of the CNN story, the group that oversees 24 medical specialties issued a statement condemning the use of the recalls.

The American Board of Medical Specialties said on its website that, "It should be made abundantly clear that recalling and sharing questions from exams violates exam security, professional ethics and patient trust in the medical profession. When it happens, the practice should be addressed swiftly and decisively. Whether someone is providing or using test questions, ABMS Member Boards enforce sanctions that may include permanent barring from certification, and/or prosecution for copyright violation."

CNN has confirmed the practice also exists with dermatology, where the recalls are known as "airplane notes," because residents write down as much as they can remember on the plane after taking the test.

In an anonymous e-mail to the American Board of Dermatology in 2008, a resident wrote: "The board needs to know that there is an organized effort year after year to, by verbatim, reproduce each and every question of the official ABD certifying examination minutes after its completion. So-called "airplane notes"...are well known to dermatology residents and are compiled, typed up and quietly distributed among residency programs across the country."

The resident, now a practicing dermatologist, wrote, "Each year, minutes after the certifying exam is complete, there is an almost ceremonial meeting of examinees at a local hotel or restaurant there in Chicago. A feverish and collective effort is made by examinees from many programs to reproduce on paper as many questions as they can -- verbatim -- that they had just encountered. This is then integrated into an updated "airplane notes," which then has questions from the year before, and the year before that, etc., in an organized fashion. These are even professionally bound at Kinko's at times."

In a response to the e-mail, the board's executive director, Dr. Antoinette Hood, wrote: "The board takes every precaution to discourage this practice amongst graduating residents: maintaining strict security of items, minimizing the number of previously used questions, and requiring an honor code statement (signed two separate times) declaring that information will not be shared. Unfortunately we have no mechanism for enforcing the honor code or controlling interpersonal communications that occur after an examination. The real issue is how do we police professionalism and how do we identify the offenders?"

Hood said she has addressed this issue for several years during the board's annual meeting by telling dermatology residents the practice is not allowed.

"I've never seen airplane notes, but I've heard about it," Hood said.

"We really try to do something to prevent it from happening," Hood said. "It's a high stakes examination and people are naturally very anxious about it and that brings out the potential worst in people."

Asked if she considered this cheating, Hood said, "Yes, but I can't prove it - period."

The board has warned residents that using airplane notes is illegal, because test questions are copyrighted.

"There are legal consequences to this practice, as the questions of the American Board of Dermatology are protected by copyright laws, and any reproduction, not approved by the board, illegal. But, of much greater importance, this practice is unethical and violates our professionalism and ethical standards, which are the basis for the trust given us by our patients," one board newsletter obtained by CNN reads.

Dermatology residents confirm the practice has been widespread, but the value of the actual airplane notes varies depending on the accuracy of the memorization.

The dermatology board scrambles the approximately 300 questions from test to test to make it more difficult to memorize them. About 20% of the questions each year are recycled from old tests, compared with about 50% for the written exam in radiology.

"We scramble the questions so that discourages the rote memorization," Hood said.

After a phone interview, Hood agreed to an an on-camera interview with CNN to discuss the recalls. But she abruptly canceled the interview two days beforehand, saying she had changed her mind.

While the use of airplane notes and recalls has been discussed for years in dermatology and radiology, they are not widely known outside those professions.

Dr. Gary Becker, executive director of the American Board of Radiology, said using recalls was cheating.

"I am saying it's cheating. It's a violation of our policy," Becker said.

Dr. James Borgstede, the radiology board's president-elect, said said the test-taking culture has changed since he took the exam in 1978.

"Right now, in radiology, jobs are hard to find. Board certification is very, very important. When I took the exam, you could still practice without being a board-certified radiologist. Now, that's virtually impossible," Borgstede said.

"So, a high-stakes examination, and the other thing is it's a difference in culture. These individuals sort of view us as a system, and them as outside the system, and there's this issue of sort of stick it to the man. You know, that we're the system, and they can do this and it's acceptable. We tell them it's not acceptable."

Becker said that despite the use of the recalls, the public is protected because of the overall training and an intensive oral exam that residents must undergo to become certified.

Next year, the board is rolling out a new exam for the first time in more than 10 years. Instead of two written tests and one oral exam, the first exam will be a "core exam" taken after three years of residency training, and the second certifying exam will be taken 15 months after graduation. The oral exam is being eliminated.

Meanwhile, The American College of Radiology, which does not certify radiologists, posted a statement on its website after the CNN story aired.

"The most troubling aspect of this report is the implication that all radiologists who pass these examinations are 'cheaters.' The allegation of cheating not only involves an unspecified and unidentified number of individuals, but smears the entire specialty with a broad and unjustified brush," the statement said.

"Whether one considers the sharing of mentally recalled questions to be unethical, or simply a type of study aid, board certification represents significantly more than passing an exam, and should not be impugned simply on the basis of examination methodology," it said.

Asked whether the group considered recalls cheating, a spokesman said it had no comment beyond the statement.

Other medical specialties contacted by CNN said they had not experienced that kind of systemic use of recalls.

The American Board of Family Medicine has sent investigators into test review company classes to ensure they aren't teaching from old test questions.

"When we've investigated these groups and (gone) through these classes, we've never found old exams," said board spokesman Robert Cattoi.

The board only re-uses "a very small number of questions" from old exams, he said. The American Board of Orthopedic Surgery re-uses about 20% of old questions each year.

"We know of no similar recall registry of questions such as was in your piece (about) the radiology residents," said the board's executive director, Dr. Shepard Hurwitz.

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