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Facial palsy: What do patients and healthcare care about?

14 March 2019 | Elinor Warner | Facial Plastic Surgery | Delphi study, Facial palsy, Facial paralysis, Patient voice, Research priorities, United Kingdom

The article describes the process for establishing a collaborative research agenda to address gaps in understanding of the diagnosis, treatment management of facial palsy. A Delphi technique was used in order to establish a facial palsy research agenda. In round...

Letter from Hong Kong (6 January 2022)

6 January 2022 | Andrew Burd (Prof)

So now we are entering the third year of this global pandemic. It is changing, evolving and is bringing out the very best and the very worst in humanity. Science and scientists have had a real bashing, but then who by? Quacks, aardvarks and gobbeldygooks. Looking back is looking forward.

How I Do It - Treating melasma and PIH

6 April 2021 | Rozina Ali | Aesthetic Medicine, Dermatology

Melasma and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH) are among the most common skin disorders in society with prevalence of up to 50% in some populations. Melasma is more prevalent among females and also among those with darker skin types III–V on the...

The fault in our scars

5 July 2024 | Patricia Neves | Dermatology, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES

A groundbreaking study recently presented to the British Association of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgeons (BAPRAS – www.bapras.org.uk), conducted at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in collaboration with the University of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Kids and University College London, has...

Perceptions and deceptions A personal blog by the editor 30 Mar 2016

30 March 2016 | Andrew Burd (Prof)

The PMFA News website is the perfect place to share your views. We are objective. And we are free. I recently resigned from my post as Centenary Professor in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Translational Science. I was an...

How I Do It - Breast augmentation: choosing the ideal implant size

1 June 2017 | Fernando Amato | Breast Surgery

Fernando Amato discusses the value of using 3D simulated imaging to help patients make the right decision about their implant size. Breast augmentation with implants is one of the most widespread plastic surgeries. However, clinicians still have some difficulties and...

Melanoma skin cancer: how can we improve early detection in the UK?

1 April 2020 | Stephen Hayes | Dermatology

With melanoma rates increasing globally, should there be screening of high-risk groups? Stephen Hayes takes a look at how Australia has reduced its melanoma mortality and asks whether a similar model should be adopted elsewhere. In Britain, some 16,000 new...

The scandal of NHS contracts with the independent healthcare sector

20 August 2020 | James D Frame (Prof)

Since March 2020 it was sensible medical practice to consider making all possible beds in the NHS available to potentially admit ill patients with COVID-19. The expected admission rate was supposed to risk overwhelming the NHS, so independent sector facilities apparently volunteered and were then contracted to the NHS as priority, with full remuneration for their losses, and all private practitioners were effectively frozen out from seeing, admitting and operating on their own self pay patients.

Treatment of rosacea using pulsed dye laser

1 December 2018 | Firas Al-Niaimi (Prof), Konika Patel Schallen | Aesthetic Medicine, Dermatology

Rosacea is a common chronic cutaneous inflammatory condition estimated to affect 415 million people worldwide [1]. It characteristically affects the central face and its primary features include flushing, non-transient erythema, telangiectasia and in progressive stages papules and pustules. Secondarily, it...

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