Sentences with phrase «experimental surgery»

The statue of a white doctor who performed experimental surgeries on female slaves has been removed from East Harlem.

After a series of experimental surgeries leaves Strange penniless and no healthier than he was before, the doctor seeks out other cures.

The VA's Office of Research Oversight found in May that researchers at the VA facility in Richmond failed to adequately document whether dogs had been treated properly, and that four dogs suffered complications in experimental surgeries.

He developed a surgical procedure to repair the fistulas by doing experimental surgery on three slave women.

Her subject, H.M., was a patient who underwent experimental surgery in the 1950s hoping to be cured of epilepsy, and was instead saddled with a short - term memory that lasted only 20 seconds.

A surgeon named William Beecher Scoville had done experimental surgeries suggesting that severe epilepsy could be treated by removing the parts of the brain that caused the electrical malfunction.

Although experimental surgery for the transplantation of the uterus to the cisgender women is already underway, thus the situation may change with time.

For those pet owners reluctant to try what is still considered experimental surgery by some in the veterinary community, or those pet parents where the cost is prohibitive, there are other, less expensive, alternatives.

In the end, the movie muddles the plot even more with Danny going through experimental surgery to solve his blindness, which erupts into a media frenzy.

, it's promise of a sexually frustrated teen girl that gets her kicks ripping off scabs, roadkill and dalliances into experimental surgery have all the makings of a bleak comedy classic.

Lili's decision to pursue experimental surgery that will physically turn her into a woman is written with undue expediency, but her suffering is clear as day.

Felix is fused with a fourth - dimensional alien and is counting down the days until a potentially fatal experimental surgery to separate them, all the while dealing with his crush on his classmate Hector.

A coalition of neighborhood activists and elected officials has intensified its campaign to get the city to remove a Central Park statue of Dr. James Marion Sims, a white Southern doctor who performed experimental surgeries on enslaved black women.

Star athlete undergoes experimental surgery that permanently attaches a bionic leg and arm to his body but he quickly realises the advanced intelligent prosthetics have a destructive mind of their own.

While at university he had to undergo experimental surgery to save the sight in his right eye, having lost sight in the left after a kick to the head in a schoolboy rugby game.

«They were the true heroines and these experimental surgeries made the survival of so many other women possible going forward.»

I'd first read about H.M. in my freshman psychology textbook at college, in the fall of 1971, less than twenty years after the experimental surgery that robbed him of most of his existing memories and also of ability to form new ones.

A couple of years earlier, Garofolo had submitted to experimental surgery himself at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, during which a surgeon pulled chunks of ivory - colored fat out through small openings in his belly.

But Russia had long showered Macchiarini with funding and opportunities to perform his experimental surgeries to implant artificial tracheas, and it allowed him to stay.

Yann Barrandon, M. D., Ph. D, is a joint professor of Stem Cell Research and of Experimental Surgery at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and head of the Department of Experimental Surgery at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV).

These experimental surgeries could pave the way for thousands of women without a uterus to give birth one day.

In this sci - fi thriller, based on a novel by Michael Crichton, a scientist decides to be the lab rat in an experimental surgery to control his violent tendencies.

FBI scientists hatch a plan: they have developed an experimental surgery which would allow them to graft Troy's face temporarily on Archer's head and allow him to question Pollux as if he were his brother.

After a young woman has a motorcycle accident that leads to experimental surgery to save her life, she develops a taste for blood that spurs a city - wide zombie epidemic.

She then undergoes a series of controversial and experimental surgeries, including some of the first documented gender - reassignment procedures, in order to fully become Lili.

Marissa: Also like the entire plot is spurred by Mira Sorvino's character taking a vacation and he's heard massage therapist and she's known him for like five minutes when she's like, «You should get this experimental surgery that I just Googled five minutes ago.»

Rose is involved in a motorcycle accident and has experimental surgery performed in order to save her life.

Next thing you know, the psychopathic murderer awakens from the experimental surgery raring to track down The Dutchman as well as the creeps who killed Pope.

Still, the parts of the film that showed Reynolds as Wade Wilson before his experimental surgeries and enhancenments weren't all bad.

Having run through Falk's money, Bruno turns to Stolarsky, who, for reasons of his own, agrees to fly Bruno to Berkeley, and to pay for the experimental surgery that might save his life.

All our experimental surgeries are done to dogs that don't have owners,» Rubios told Reuters.

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