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Spa Medical Aesthetics Conference and Expo becomes regular feature at Global Beauty Week

HBA Global Events has announced that the Spa & Resort/Medical Aesthetics Conference and Expo will become a regular feature of its annual Beauty Week in New York, starting September 28, 2010 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.

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Updated! Spa Themed Twitter Lists

By popular request!  Our readers asked and we are happy to oblige. SpaIndex.com (publisher of SpaCast) previously tweeted its @SpaIndex #FollowFriday theme of Twitter users who are making use of  Twitter's "List Feature."  We've been asked to share our growing collection of "Twitter's Top Spa List Creators" and Spa Related Twitter Lists.  

Browsing another user's spa list is a great way to find new spa enthusists and providers in greater numbers than is permitted by the #FollowFriday trend, and by "following the list" itself you may review all tweets from the listed users in one session.

As the list feature on Twitter continues to gain popularity, and we receive your tips via Twitter, we'll enhance this list -- just let us know if you or your peers have created a spa related "Twitter List" by following and tweeting us @spaindex. *

TWITTER USERS WITH SPA-RELATED LISTS:

• http://www.twitter.com/SpaIndex
• http://twitter.com/MoreSpaTraffic/spas
• http://twitter.com/amarotto/spa-beauty-wellness
• http://twitter.com/beautycounter/spas
• http://twitter.com/beijingfairmont/spa
• http://twitter.com/blackrockspa/spas
• http://twitter.com/CranwellResort/spa
• http://twitter.com/Crash905/spa
• http://twitter.com/CrystalSprings/spa
• http://twitter.com/DaydreamMassage/massage-spa-wellness
• http://twitter.com/DeaconDoesDC/spas
• http://twitter.com/DestinationSpa/destination-spas
• http://twitter.com/dfiske/spaworld
• http://twitter.com/entre2nuages/worldspas
• http://twitter.com/futureclaw/hair-salons-and-spas
• http://twitter.com/GadaboutSalons/beauty-spa-fashion
• http://twitter.com/girlsgetaway/women-tours-spas-etc
• http://twitter.com/JewelsBG/spa-industry
• http://twitter.com/Kivivi/spas
• http://twitter.com/LookingGood_YYZ/spa
• http://twitter.com/MarktheSpaman/spa-luminaries
• http://twitter.com/meritageresort/spa
• http://twitter.com/monicaholbrook/yoga-spa
• http://twitter.com/MoxieAZSpaGirl/spa-peeps
• http://twitter.com/NancyHurst/resorts-spas-lodges
• http://twitter.com/Nemacolin/spa-world
• http://twitter.com/oseamalibu/spas-that-rock
• http://twitter.com/phreshspasalon/spasalonindustry
• http://twitter.com/sabahk/spas
• http://twitter.com/Sean1974/spa
• http://twitter.com/ShockConsult/hair-beauty-spa
• http://twitter.com/SpaFinder/spafinder-readers-choice
  
• http://twitter.com/SpaMaven/spa-boston
• http://twitter.com/swimmerpoet/spas
• http://twitter.com/TalkSpas/spas
• http://twitter.com/ThalgoUSA/spa-industry
• http://twitter.com/Wahanda/spas
• http://twitter.com/WantToGoTravel/all-things-spa
• http://twitter.com/WellnessTravel/wellness-travel
• http://twitter.com/worldbellydance/spa
• http://twitter.com/ypNYC/nyc-spas-salons/
• http://twitter.com/azspagirls/arizona-spas

Newest Additions!

• http://twitter.com/BikiniKitty/spa-beauty
• http://twitter.com/InnatTheForks/hotel-and-spa
• http://twitter.com/JewelsBG/spa-industry
• http://twitter.com/Kokokahn/spa-news
• http://twitter.com/LookingGood_YYZ/spa
• http://twitter.com/mainelementlove/spaservices
• http://twitter.com/Makeover_Diva/spaahs
• http://twitter.com/mikulsky/spa-salon-hotel
• http://twitter.com/MySkinConcierge/spa
• http://twitter.com/ORGANICLUXURY/spa
• http://twitter.com/phreshspasalon/spasalonindustry
• http://twitter.com/soapguy/spa
• http://twitter.com/ShockConsult/hair-beauty-spa
• http://twitter.com/SpaConsulting/spa-associations
• http://twitter.com/steamtherapy/travel-spas
• http://twitter.com/TalismanStudios/spas-and-salons
• http://twitter.com/TravelinKaty/spa
• http://twitter.com/VistaMassageSpa/massage-spa-wellness
• http://twitter.com/WantToGoTravel/all-things-spa
• http://twitter.com/WaxBarSalon/salon-spa-beauty
• http://twitter.com/WDSpa/spas
• http://twitter.com/w3giftcards/salons-spa

*Inclusion in SpaCast's Twitter Spa Lists is subject to approval.

SpaCast: Ilinois Atty General sues Chicago Medi-Spa for Deceptive Marketing

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Chicago-area medical spas, Nu U Med Spas, for performing unapproved procedures without a physician's supervision and luring patients through deceptive marketing.  Madigan's complaint claims that Nu U Med Spas try to lure customers into buying "Lipodissolve, which is an injected therapy used to dissolve fat cells."

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#SpaCast: US medical spas facing state legislation

Medical spas in the US and elsewhere have increased in numbers and are popular as medical tourism destinations. Several countries have reported problems of medical spas undertaking medical procedures which neither the spa nor the staff are qualified to do. Unfortunately, this reflects badly on the majority who are professional. They have tended to fall between the gaps in legislation, but one of the first countries seeking to remedy that is the USA. Nationally, the number of medical spas around the country has grown from 500 in 2004 to 2,500 today. If this growth rate continues, more states will follow the four who are preparing regulations, and almost every sate has discussed the idea.

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Are medical spas a fast-growing but undefined industry?

...[A]s the medical spa industry continues to expand at a breakneck pace, oversight of these facilities is lagging behind. New cosmetic procedures and devices are increasingly blurring the line between the practice of medicine and the field of cosmetology — and putting some patients in the hands of less-qualified individuals.

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Swine Flu Vaccine Arrives At Palm Springs area Day Spa

This seems to be the hottest property in Riverside County. H1N1 spray mist vaccines. There's a refrigerator filled with 100 of them. Up to 1,000 are on the way. We did not find them at a county medical clinic. They're all out. We found it at the Eterna Day Spa and Laser Center in Indian Wells.

How did they get this supply that county public health officials can't seem to get? Simple. Dr. Weisman's medical spa just asked.

"He actually was the first in the nation to receive it because he just had the foresight for that, far along, that many months ago that we would be needing this for the community," says Eterna Medical Day Spa's Lucy Schwartzer, RN.

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Surgery at a Spa? Buyer Beware

There is little to suggest that the TriBeCa MedSpa in Manhattan is a medical facility, at least in the traditional sense. In the waiting area, called the Tranquillity Room, a waterfall cascades down one wall. A client may have a pedicure or facial before entering a softly lighted space where a plastic surgeon performs laser Fraxel treatment or some other minimally invasive procedure that would cost twice as much in a harried doctor’s office.

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Florida Woman Brain Dead following Med Spa Visit

Rohie Kah, a 37-year-old mother of three, visited the Weston MedSpa in Weston, Fla., Sept. 25 for a procedure to remove cellulite and stretch marks, ABC news reports. But things somehow went horribly wrong.

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Should Medi Spa Medical Assistants inject Botox?

The question: Can medical assistants legally administer flu shots or Botox injections?

The answer: Depends on whom you ask.

A Nevada judge ruled Monday that emergency regulations permitting medical assistants to give flu shots, while prohibiting them from administering injections of cosmetic drugs, cannot go into effect.

An attorney said the statute is ambiguous, a way for the board to create "hype" and destroy the practices of medical spas. If the law is valid, why hasn't it been enforced for the past 30 years?  "Certain plastic surgeons are trying to recapture business lost to medical spas," the attorney said. "They abused their power on the medical board."

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Is hormone therapy at medical spas the new botox?

Practitioners claim they can reverse the aging process using a souped-up hormone regime. Getting old and fat is no longer inevitable, they said. It’s only a glandular disorder caused in part by dwindling hormones.

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