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San Antonio offers visitors a tale of two cities. If your pleasure is leisurely sipping margaritas, then this is the city for you. If you prefer learning about mission history and the city's multicultural background, this is also a great destination.

Consumers' desire to ward off the effects of aging has spurred a burgeoning market for non-invasive anti-aging procedures and products. As San Francisco dermatologist Seth L. Matarasso, M.D., puts it, "Right now is a good time to have wrinkles."

Two techniques for selling your practice for millions when you retire are using a nontraditional retirement plan or a captive insurance company to fund a buyout. The key is to plan early. There are no outside buyers of practices willing to pay you millions for your practice anymore. If you want such a buyout, you must plan for it yourself.

loe vera gel can be obtained in commercial burn preparations or by cutting open the leaf of this succulent plant. The gel that oozes from the cut leaf is considered a mucilage - a thick, viscous, clear liquid. The mucilage is 99.5 percent water, with mucopolysaccharides, choline and choline salicylate making up the remaining 0.5 percent.

Several new medications have become available for the treatment of dermatologic disorders in the past year. They include formulations of time-tested ingredients in enhanced vehicles as well as newer entities with safety and/or efficacy advantages.

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You will definitely enjoy dining in San Antonio if you enjoy Mexican food. Even if that's not your favorite fare, there are delicious dining spots at every corner that include Italian, French, American and more.

On the east side of Alamo Plaza is the most famous spot in Texas, where 189 defenders fell on March 6, 1836, after repeated attacks by Mexican General Santa Anna's army. Mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo) was established in 1718 as the city's first mission. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday - Saturday; 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

San Antonio offers visitors a tale of two cities. If your pleasure is leisurely sipping margaritas, then this is the city for you. If you prefer learning about mission history and the city's multicultural background, this is also a great destination.

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An unhappy rhinoplasty patient suggested to dermatologist Cameron Rokhsar, M.D., F.A.A.D., F.A.A.C.S., that he use Radiesse, which he was about to inject in her nasolabial folds, to diminish the divots in her nose from a previous rhinoplasty.

This is an excellent question because it relates to current lifestyle as well as future planning. You used the word sacrifice and, since you only go around once, why would anyone want to needlessly diminish the quality of life that they could currently enjoy? Your question brings up significant issues, which call into question the very premise of traditional financial planning.

Starting Oct. 1, 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially endorsed the practice of physicians charging a fee to Medicare beneficiaries who fail to show up for appointments. If you charge Medicare patients a fee for missing appointments, however, you must charge the same fee to all who skip appointments, regardless of the payer.

The worst financial foe, unmanageable personal and business debt, has reached an alarming level in the United States. According to Cambridge Consumer Credit Index, an astonishing 42 percent of Americans are paying only the minimum due on their credit card balances each month. Chip away at existing debt little by little, starting by paying off the smallest balance.

Key coding concerns for 2008 include Medicare's elimination of the Mohs surgery exemption to the multiple-procedure reduction rule, and the continuing impact of the PQRI, an expert says.

All dermatologic surgeons have to manage facial nerve injuries and subsequent facial nerve paralysis, whether temporary or permanent, when performing facial surgery. Avoiding facial nerve injury is the best route and this can be best achieved by adequate knowledge of the anatomy as well as understanding tumor type and size.

With multiple advantages compared with newer technology-based treatments and efficacy substantiated by histologic studies, chemical peeling continues to have an important role in multiple indications.

Patient demand - and age - are on the rise for minimally invasive facelifts. Older patients are willing to accept 'modest' neck tightening in exchange for less-invasive surgery and less risky anesthesia.

Results of an online survey link communication skills, accessibility, and follow-up to patient satisfaction with medical care. Steven R. Feldman, MD, PhD, discusses the importance of characterizing factors influencing patient satisfaction and strategies for improving it.

Sacramento, Calif. - Publishing in dermatologic and other peer-reviewed journals can boost a dermatologist's credibility, knowledge base, ego and sense of giving back. But doing what it takes - doing the research, writing the paper, submitting the manuscript and making necessary corrections - requires significant time and energy for a task that does not directly boost income.

Much of the virulence of community-associated methicillin resistant S. aureus (CA-MRSA) is caused by phenol-soluble modulin (PSM) peptides, a family of proteins that had not previously been studied in the pathogen. The discovery, published in Nature Medicine, opens the door to a better understanding of the infection and potential new targets for intervention.

Basic research has been building the case for decades of how stress negatively affects human health-from tumor genesis, to immune function, to skin barrier function-but clinical management of these interactions has lagged far behind.

The "black box" of how psychological stress increases susceptibility to infection has been unlocked in a study in the mouse model. The mechanism of action is not through the adaptive immune system, as many had thought, but rather through the secretion of endogenous glucocorticoids that in turn affect the production of two key antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) made by the epidermis.

A red annular "bull's eye" patch, known as erythema migrans (EM), is the most common presentation of early Lyme disease

The elimination of the Mohs surgery exemption to Medicare's multiple-surgery reduction rule will mean that Mohs surgeons who perform multiple in-office surgeries in one day will earn less for secondary procedures than they cost, sources say.

Dermatologists once again find themselves at the mercy of the politicians in Washington, facing significant reductions in Medicare reimbursement for 2008, unless Congress once again comes to the rescue - and President Bush signs whatever legislation is passed.

Dr. Suit has a large dermatology practice in the Sunbelt. He has seen countless numbers of malignant melanoma patients over the past 20 years. Unfortunately, he has been sued four times on the issue of misdiagnosis of melanoma. Three cases went to court, and in the two cases in which the patient died, he lost multimillion-dollar lawsuits because of sympathetic juries.