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NEWS ABOUT: surgery

surgery stories: 101 news summaries

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 Docs Separate 
 Conjoined Twins 
 in 25-Hour Surgery 

Aussie surgeons still unsure if girls will survive

Nov 16, 09 10:27 PM CST
(AP) - Twin Bangladeshi girls who were joined at the top of their heads and shared blood vessels and brain tissue were successfully separated Tuesday in Australia after 25 hours of delicate surgery, hospital officials said. It is too early to know whether the 2-year-olds, Trishna and Krishna, suffered any brain damage... More »

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surgery • conjoined twins • separation • Royal Children's Hospital

Spas Meet Surgery, Results Not Always Pretty

Hybrid medical spas face increasing scrutiny after death

Nov 5, 09 10:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Medical spas offering pedicures alongside plastic surgery are gathering steam, their numbers swelling 85% from mid-2007 to the end of last year—and coming under scrutiny. The death of a Florida woman undergoing liposuction at one of the nation's 1,800 such spas has added fire to proposed legislation in... More »

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surgery • spas • liposuction • medical spas

Robot-Assisted Prostate Surgery Linked to Problems

Study finds potential issue with non-invasive surgery option

Oct 14, 09 6:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Men who undergo minimally invasive, robot-assisted prostate surgery were more than twice as likely to suffer from impotence and incontinence a year and a half later, compared to those receiving conventional surgery, a new Harvard study has found. Some 4.7% of those treated with laparoscopic surgery, using remote-controlled techniques,... More »

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prostate cancer • surgery • robots • robotics • laparoscopy

(Newser) - Doctors in Miami have used a woman’s tooth to help restore her vision, the Los Angeles Times reports. A disease that destroyed tissue in her left eye left Sharon Thornton unable to undergo a cornea transplant, so surgeons cut a canine tooth and bone out of her upper jaw... More »

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surgery • tooth • University of Miami • eyes • cornea • retina • Sharon Thornton • Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

 Docs Urge Caution on 
 Plastic Surgery for Migraines 

Plastic surgery may not help majority of migraine sufferers

Sep 3, 09 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times weighs in today on the recent study that showed plastic surgery to be effective in curing, or at least cutting the frequency of, migraine headaches. Headache specialists are intrigued but concerned that even if they're not good candidates, patients will rush to have the forehead lifts,... More »

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plastic surgery • surgery • migraines • Botox • headaches • doctors

(Newser) - Trouble at nuclear reactors that produce two-thirds of the world’s medical isotopes have created massive testing delays in the US, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The isotopes, created in Canada and the Netherlands, are used for presurgery stress tests and to locate some cancers; doctors are limping along with... More »

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cancer • surgery • Canada • Netherlands • nuclear reactor • tests • thyroid cancer • radioactive isotopes • medical isotopes • nuclear medicine

(Newser) - Beastie Boy Adam Yauch has had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in his salivary gland and is recovering at home, Rolling Stone reports. The rapper says he had the procedure a week and a half ago, and spent just one night in the hospital. Though his recovery is... More »

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entertainment • music • surgery • hip-hop • parotid tumors • Beastie Boys • Adam Yauch • throat cancer • MCA • radiation treatment

Cut Down on C-Sections, Experts Tell US Women

Hospitals profit from unnecessary cesareans

May 17, 09 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - American women are risking their health and driving up medical costs by having too many cesarean sections, the Los Angeles Times reports. The most common operation in the US, the C-section is used in 31% of births and accounts for 45% of rising birth costs. It can also lead to... More »

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health care • health care costs • surgery • Victoria Beckham • birth • cesarean section

(Newser) - Don’t worry, everyone—octuplet mom Nadya Suleman will be able to have more kids, she tells Radar. Though she recently said upcoming surgery would remove half her uterus and prevent her from becoming pregnant, the operation is actually just a “myomectomy,” which involves taking fibriods out of... More »

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fertility • surgery • children • Nadya Suleman

(Newser) - A British dog is healthy after emergency surgery to remove an alphabet’s worth of fridge magnets from his belly, the BBC reports. Jack had just returned home from being neutered, and his owner put him in the kitchen to rest. “The next morning I noticed the whole alphabet... More »

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surgery • England • alphabet • Labrador Retriever • pet owners • gastrointestinal • yellow lab • kitchen magnets

(Newser) - The nation's first face-transplant recipient met the public for the first time since her December operation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Connie Culp, who had been shot by her husband in 2004 and essentially lost the middle of her face, has "progressed tremendously," said one of her doctors... More »

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surgery • Cleveland • face transplant • Cleveland Clinic

Glowing Cancer Cells Signal Surgical Leap

New technique takes much of the guesswork out of tumor removal

Apr 25, 09 2:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Surgery to remove tumors has always been a delicate undertaking. Surgeons must try to remove all of the cancerous cells while minimizing the loss of surrounding tissue, a task made harder by the fact that it’s difficult to tell the difference just by looking. No longer: Scientists have found... More »

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cancer • surgery • cancer research • Nobel Prize • tumors • fluorescence • Roger Tsien

(Newser) - A Taiwanese medical school is responding to the island nation’s shortage of cadavers for study by bringing the family of the deceased fully into the program, the Wall Street Journal reports. At Tzu Chi University, medical students meet with donors' families and even compose poems to their “... More »

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China • surgery • Taiwan • corpse • donation • Buddhism • medical schools • cadaver • Tzu Chi University

 Burn Victim 
 Gets New 
 Face, Hands 

Landmark operation in clinic where docs performed world's first face transplant

Apr 7, 09 3:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - A burn victim has received a new face and hands in a ground-breaking transplant surgery in France, reports the Times of London. A team of 40 doctors worked 30 hours in the same Paris hospital that performed the world's first face transplant in 2005 and first hand transplant in 1998.... More »

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surgery • France • physician • Paris • hospital • face transplant • surgeons • hand transplant

Richardson Tragedy Helps Save 7-Year-Old's Life

Parents take 7-year-old in after seeing story on CNN

Mar 26, 09 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The tragic death of actress Natasha Richardson from an epidural hematoma has raised awareness of the dangers of seemingly minor head injuries, and helped save the life of a 7-year-old Ohio girl, CNN reports. Morgan McCracken was hit by a baseball while playing with her father, but seemed OK. “... More »

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surgery • trauma • head injuries • Natasha Richardson • head trauma • hematoma • epidural hematoma

OPINION

 Tiger: I'm Better, Ready to Win  

Woods confident he'll do better after knee surgery

Mar 12, 09 9:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Another athlete might undersell his post-surgery abilities, but Tiger Woods is not any athlete. “He’s not just comfortable with the demands of greatness,” Dave Hyde writes in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel ahead of today’s first round of the CA Championship. “He embraces them. He builds... More »

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golf • Tiger Woods • surgery • CA Championship at Doral • Geoff Ogilvy

 Surgeons 
 Remove 
 6 Organs to 
 Save Girl, 7 

Child has six vital organs removed so doctors can find a cancerous tumor

Mar 10, 09 1:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - A smiling 7-year-old was released from a New York hospital today after surgeons undertook a rare, high-risk operation to save her life, USA Today reports. The operation, performed last month, called for surgeons to temporarily remove her stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver and large and small intestines in order to... More »

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cancer • surgery • New York • pancreas • stomach • malignant tumor • spleen • Heather McNamara

A-Rod to Undergo Minor Hip Surgery

Yank puts off bigger procedure until winter; back in 6-8 weeks

Mar 8, 09 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Faced with the choice between playing through pain and undergoing an invasive surgery, Alex Rodriguez chose Hidden Option C: an arthroscopic surgical procedure that will put off the major operation until after the baseball season. He'll still be out for 6-8 weeks, but the scandal-plagued slugger prefers that to the... More »

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surgery • Alex Rodriguez • cyst • hip

Fiorina Has Surgery for Breast Cancer

Former HP CEO, McCain adviser 'doing great': chief of staff

Mar 3, 09 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Ex-Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina had surgery yesterday in California after being diagnosed with breast cancer Feb. 20, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. “She's doing great," her chief of staff said. "She only just learned about this.” After a controversial stint at HP, Fiorina went on... More »

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California • breast cancer • surgery • Senate • Carly Fiorina • Hewlett-Packard

 'Terrible Pain' 
 Prompts Surgery 
 for Dying TV Star 

'This is the place that I am going to die': Jade Goody

Mar 2, 09 11:38 AM CST
(Newser) - British reality-TV star Jade Goody, terminally ill with cancer, was rushed to the hospital last night for “terrible pain” in her stomach, and doctors are operating today, the Daily Mail reports. “She was sobbing and petrified,” her publicist said. But cancer specialists “got the pain under... More »

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reality TV • surgery • Britain • abdominal pain • Jade Goody

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