Dr. Ali In The News
Doctor, nurses give help, care to hurricane victims
Written by Lisette Hilton
National report — As dislocated residents were emptying out of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, Dima Ali, M.D., felt "a calling" to help. Dr. Ali, an aesthetic medicine physician practicing at the Well Medica Anti-Aging and Wellness Center, Reston, Va., along with Jan Setnor, C.R.N.A., and Debbie Marinucci, R.N., of the Austin-Weston Center for Cosmetic Surgery, Reston, Va., headed south with all the supplies that would fit into their U-Haul.
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Liposuction Without Surgery, Fast Becoming An American Trend
Written by Tracey Neale and Samara Martin-Ewing
It's liposuction without surgery. Roberta Flack does it. Super-models do it, but should you? "Mesotherapy," or "Meso" as some call it, is a French weightless treatment women in Europe and Brazil have been "secretly" doing for 50 years.
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Sticking It to Fat?
Mesotherapy: Much Promoted, Little Studied
By Sandra G. Boodman
Washington Post Staff Writer
In the age-old battle of woman vs. fat, an arsenal of weapons have been deployed: creams, pills, devices, surgery and now, just in time for bathing suit season, mesotherapy -- a cosmetic treatment that involves injections.
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