Sentences with phrase «people undergo an operation»

It's the first book in his young adult series about a strictly regimented, post-scarcity society where all people undergo an operation at age 16 to make them pretty, and Tally...

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Melanie Vandyke was among the first dozen people to undergo laser epilepsy surgery at Wake Forest Baptist, and although she was discharged from the hospital the following day it took much longer than that for her to regard the operation as a success.

In one controlled trial of surgery for angina, half the people with the condition underwent an operation in which doctors merely made a skin incision and closed it up; in the other half, the patients had a particular kind of bypass.

The team compared the incidence of MCI in people who had undergone an operation or procedure that required general anesthetic since the age of 40 with the incidence in people who had not.

More young people like Shaina, who are obese and often suffering from serious health complications, are undergoing operations to help them lose weight.

And it's hard to imagine a more hospitable moment than right now for a commercially viable movie based on the life of Lili Elbe, a Danish painter in the 1920s who — with the help of a supportive wife (played by Ex Machina and Man From U.N.C.L.E. newcomer Alicia Vikander)-- became the first person in history to undergo a male - to - female sex - change operation.