Breast implant and aesthetic specialities supplier Mentor Corp. was acquired by medical products giant, Johnson & Johnson on December 1st, 2008 for a reported $1.1 billion.
JP Morgan analyst Michael Weinstein said the deal was most likely possible thanks to the recent economic strain, which had Mentor aggressively marketing its silicone implants over its other products.
While [...]

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CNN aired a news segment this week about the Japanese surgeon Kotaro Yoshimura and his innovative, but somewhat controversial breast augmentation method, which uses stem cells to successfully perform fat grafting during breast augmentation procedures. Yoshimura has received public notoriety for the technique and according to the news report, [...]

Officials from the Food and Drug Administration met in November with a group of outside experts to review complications that have been reported in association with cosmetic dermal filler injections.
Over the last six years, there have been roughly 900 reports of wrinkle filler issues.  Juvederm, Restylane, Radiesse and other new offerings are products that fall [...]