Pregnancy Week by Week Calendar Pregnancy Symptom and Pregnancy Testing. Wednesday, February 13, 2008. Tests Done Under Special Circumstances. The cells can be grown and the fluid analyzed for various biochemical markers. The doctor places this fluid in one.

Thursday, November 8, 2007. Ductal lavage is a procedure for collecting cells from the milk ducts of the breast for analysis. The procedure is used to identify precancerous cells, called atypical cells. Ductal lavage currently is performed only on women who have multiple breast cancer risk factors to try to detect breast cancer before it starts.

Saturday, November 10, 2007. Goodbye, Cellulite Thighs? A new treatment may give new hope to reduce cellulite, the unsightly dimpling of thigh and buttocks skin, researchers say. A New York plastic surgeon reported on the new treatment Tuesday at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons annual meeting in San Francisco.

Thursday, February 28, 2008. It turns out that a punch, albeit one that is only 1 mm in size, can be used to harvest individual follicular units in some patients. One of the pioneers of follicular unit extraction, Dr. William Rassman, president and founder of the New Hair Institute in Los Angeles, explains that a 1 mm punch is just the right size to grab the follicular unit and remove it .