FDA ADVISORY PANEL RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF RADIESSE FOR TWO FACIAL AESTHETIC APPLICATIONS

BioForm Medical, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) General and Plastic Surgery Devices Advisory Panel has recommended the approval of Radiesse, a next-generation soft tissue augmentation product, for use as a filler material to restore soft tissue facial contours such as nasolabial folds and for use in the correction of lipoatrophy of the face associated with HIV therapy. Yahoo News (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060824/sfth059.html?.v=70)