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No ear job for you! Germany may ban plastic surgery for kids

According to The Local – Germany’s news in English, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc and the Social Democrats are going to start the new year with a new nanny state effort. The leaders want to ban cosmetic surgery for kids: Jens Spahn, health spokesman for the Christian Democratic Union told the Spiegel magazine: “Youth protection […]

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Devices & Diagnostics

Will this 2013 Innovation of the Year device change the standard of care for port site closures?

The standard of care for port site closures in laparoscopic surgery may be changing. Irish medical device startup neoSurgical‘s first commercialized product, neoClose, officially launched this week in the U.S. Today, the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons named the device one of the 2013 Innovations of the Year at the SLS Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Annual Meeting. […]