Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. During a free lecture on June 25, Lompoc Health – North H Center’s Dr. William Ganske will combine two of his medical ...

The Binkhorst lecture and medal, named for IOL pioneer Cornelius D. Binkhorst, were established in 1975. Each year, ASCRS awards the medal to an individual who has followed in Dr. Binkhorst’s ...

Dr. John M. Anastasatos, a world-renowned Beverly Hills and Athens plastic surgeon, delivered the keynote lecture on aesthetic plastic surgery at the Royal Society of Medicine's APRAS Conference in ...

Oculoplastic surgeon Christine C. Nelson, MD, has received the 2012 Wendell L. Hughes Lecture award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, according to a news ...

* WHAT: Diana Farmer, MD, speaks on “Fetal Surgery: What’s Old, What’s New, What’s Right” at the opening lecture of the UCSF Mini Medical School, a six-week series for the public continuing through ...

NEWARK — When former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was growing up in rural Arkansas, her brother's appendix burst, requiring immediate medical treatment. The nearest doctor was 13 miles away, and ...

Dr. Michael Raklewicz and Dr. James Mattucci, orthopedic surgeons from Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, recently held a lecture on the latest advancements in orthopedic surgeries at ...

“Tell me what you don’t like about yourself”—it’s the catch phrase uttered by the plastic surgeons on the television show Nip/Tuck. Real life plastic surgeon and photographer, David Teplica, M.D., MFA ...

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia -- The Hon. Thomas McCaffery, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, was the invited guest as part of a lecture series hosted by Lt. Gen. R. Scott Dingle, the U.S.