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A PHD student at Dalhousie in Halifax named Alec Falkenham believes that he may have come up with an easy and painless way to remove tattoos – through a cream treatment. While many tattoo removal creams are already being sold on the market at your local drugstore, we have see that the results are generally […]

Recently the Vancouver Sun wrote about a disturbing discovery in the medical field. A person posing as a medically-licensed doctor was practising on patients in Vancouver while unlicensed and giving botox and other collagen related treatments to unknowing patients. With the help of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C., a private investigator posed

A story recently published in the Wall Street Journal has some important news for those suffering from acne: Some effective acne treatments may not be effective much longer. Oral antibiotics were once one of the most successful treatments for acne. This is a worrying trend for doctors, who were noted in the article as seeing

We’re nowhere close to reaching the limit of the potential possessed by lasers. No story demonstrates that better than this one. This feature covers the introduction of a new acne laser treatment based on the laser technology that is already currently used to remove tattoos. Lasers are constantly-developing technology, so it should be no surprise

Interesting news from CBCN last week! According to the article located here, researchers led by David Granville were looking into something else entirely when they noticed that mice in one of their experimental groups had unusually healthy skin. The experiment was arranged to test how a new enzyme affected mice that were exposed to sunlight

We’ve proudly offered SkinMedica products at our clinic for quite awhile, and it’s always a pleasure to see our partners in care get some positive attention in the press. The most recent attention came in the form of a celebrity-spotting by journalists from the Daily Mail. Are the Stars SkinMedica Enthusiasts? We’ve recently learned that

The Montreal Gazette recently published an article that every parent should read. Acne has always been thought of as one of the unfortunate necessities of adolescence. It’s always been a common and significant source of discomfort and humiliation for people who are already in a difficult stage of life—but does it have to be? Doctors

“You’ll be stuck with that thing forever,” mothers used to warn their newly-inked sons and daughters. Fortunately for those kids, that’s no longer true. Tattoos are easier than ever to remove, and theres no reason to believe the technology isn’t going to get even better. However, amidst all that change, one thing hasn’t: That young

Laser tattoo removal is now one of the most popular cosmetic procedures. Perhaps because of the popularity, a lot of people are unfortunately trying to offer tattoo removal without the proper training or equipment. This is a dangerous trend, because the skin is the innocent bystander between tattoos and poor technique. Distraught Patients Left with

You’ve been working out. You’ve been wearing your sunscreen faithfully. You’ve been eating and drinking right (well, almost). And your skin and body show it, too, but you’ve been thinking about taking that next step. If only…if only it wasn’t so drastic. Well, it isn’t. We’re here to tell you that there are many non-invasive