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Part three: Aye, Aye. AI?

26 March 2025 | | AI, clinical guidelines, good practice, oncology, melanoma, cosmetic, aesthetic surgery
I wonder whether we should use the term 'augmented intelligence' rather than 'artificial intelligence'. I say this because at this moment in our evolution, artificial intelligence (AI) always begins with human intelligence. In this blog, I want to examine how...

Venomous snake bite leaves arm unusable: boy waits seven years for life-changing surgery

1 May 2025 | charity, news, plastic surgery, international, Mercy Ships
An 11-year-old boy from Sierra Leone can finally go to school and use his right arm again after his severely deformed limb was operated on by international health charity, Mercy Ships. Without the free surgery, Yusif’s right hand and arm...

Skin cancer AI approved by NHS as millions skip sun cream, new data shows

7 May 2025 | news, dermatology, skin cancer, melanoma, UV, exposure, sunlight, AI, technology
New reports reveal that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has approved a new AI technology for the NHS to help reduce waiting times for skin cancer diagnoses after it was found that Britons are actively letting themselves burn...

Volunteer Surgeon returns to UK to give prestigious Norman Rowe Lecture, 38 years from where vision for his lifework began

29 August 2025 | charity, Mercy Ships, international, lifetime achievement
Dedicated surgeon, Mr Gary Parker, has spent almost four decades volunteering as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon for international healthcare charity, Mercy Ships. Earlier this year, Mr Parker returned to the UK to give the prestigious Norman Rowe Lecture on...

Facing suffocation: young woman saved from critical neck growth that could have caused death

8 September 2025 | charity, Volunteering, surgical, Mercy Ships, Africa
A young woman whose sore throat became a life-threatening growth in her neck, leaving her struggling to breathe and facing suffocation, has had it removed for free by surgical volunteers from international charity Mercy Ships. “When we first met her,...

BSFPS Annual Meeting 2023 and Juniors Day

12 October 2023 -13 October 2023 | ENTA - ENT
Haseem Raja, ST4 ENT Registrar at University Hospital North Midlands, and Edward Balai, ST5 ENT Registrar at Charing Cross Hospital. The British Society of Facial Plastic Surgery (BSFPS) Annual Meeting took place in the vibrant city of Manchester, with leading...

BSFPS Annual Meeting 2025

9 October 2025 -10 October 2025 | ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery
British Society of Facial Plastic Surgery Juniors Day and Annual Meeting 2025

The applications of mesotherapy in aesthetic medicine

10 October 2017 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology
Mesotherapy is a modern form of therapy that consists of injecting medicines, vitamins and minerals as close as possible to the area that needs treatment. It is an astonishingly effective technique in aesthetic medicine as it treats layers of the...

Medicinal leech therapy in plastic surgery

1 August 2017 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
The medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis) has played a role in treating illness for over 3500 years [1]. It has survived rapid paradigm shifts in medical sciences and knowledge. In Ancient Rome, the use of leeches for bloodletting was propagated by...

Opinion: Non-health groups and facial cosmetic injections: When prophecy fails

1 April 2017 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology
It was in the late 1950s that the Psychologist Leon Festinger first developed his theory to explain how members of a cult were persuaded by their leader, Dorothy Martin that the earth was going to be destroyed by a flood...

The day to day running of an aesthetics clinic

1 December 2016 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
With the booming aesthetics industry expected to continue growing at the rate of 10% per year, the move into setting up and running your own aesthetics clinic may seem increasingly tempting. PMFA News’ very own Victoria Smith takes you through...

Botulinum toxin and dermal filler treatment for facial deformity: an analysis of patient satisfaction

1 December 2016 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology
Dermal fillers and botulinum toxin are being increasingly used to treat facial deformities but are patients satisfied with the results? Facial deformity can result in low confidence and self-esteem amongst patients due to cosmetic and functional difficulties [1]. There is...