Sentences with phrase «to surgery»

At age 41, he had surgery to fix a deviated septum.

-- Dr. Michael Swann, board certified Dermatologist and expert in Mohs Surgery in Springfield, Missouri.

In an essay penned for the March 2018 issue of Vogue, Dunham revealed that she underwent a total hysterectomy to remove her uterus and cervix, after «years of complex surgeries measuring in the double digits» and trying alternative treatments.

The answer will determine whether you opt for aspirin or surgery.

Yet, while Shelley Hwang, chief of breast surgery at Duke Cancer Institute and vice chair of research at Duke University's Department of Surgery, agrees in principle, she also has concerns about all the new diagnostic potential that will come with precision medicine.

While practicing medicine at Stanford University, he won the American Academy of Neurological Surgery's highest award for research.

There's still much more work to be done before robots can be routinely used in hospitals to help doctors perform surgery and other functions.

Without open - heart surgery, he could have been dead within weeks.

She explained that the elective surgery was an attempt to end years of chronic pain from endometriosis.

While Gates admits he isn't usually «one for tear - jerkers about death and dying,» he was drawn to Kalanithi's search for meaning through books, writing, his family, medicine, surgery, and science.

Imagine you needed surgery and asked the surgeon who was going to operate on you, «Have you ever done this surgery before?»

But life gets in the way — the refrigerator breaks or an unexpected surgery is needed — and taking those setbacks in stride isn't easy.

The senator from Arizona returned Monday to Washington, DC, less than a week after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and less than two weeks after he had brain surgery.

On July 14, McCain had brain surgery above his left eye to remove a blood clot.

But with the Republican bill in need of major surgery, the politics for the president are straightforward: Going after the industry, one of the country's least popular, would fulfill a promise he made to cash - strapped voters; it would allow him to highlight the unsavory deal the Obama administration cut with the sector to buy its neutrality during the original consideration of the law; and it would generate tens of billions of dollars Republicans could use to preserve some coverage for the estimated 24 million who'd lose it under their initial proposal.

Moghadam later attributed some of his behavior to the effects of the then unknown brain tumor, but the first indication that Moghadam's unruly approach could do damage came late last year, after his surgery had been deemed a success.

Just what are those tremendous medical costs, for services such as hormone therapy or surgery?

Apparently, Wal - Mart realized that 30 percent of its employees who got a second opinion from a top - rated medical center decided not to have spinal surgery, which can cost $ 20,000.

The somewhat - warm - and - fuzzy example has to do with back surgery.

One in three South Korean women between 19 and 29 have already undergone cosmetic surgery, Gallup Korea found in 2015.

It used to take three or four hours for some doctors in the country to procure blood for transfusions during surgery and childbirths.

I won't reveal yet who my favorites are, but I will say that these young scientist - founders came up with very creative solutions for preventing infections in some common surgeries, tackling resistance in targeted antibody drugs, improving gene vectors for cell therapies, helping the vision - impaired «see» faces and better read their environments, imaging hard - to - see spots in the lungs and other organs, improving genetic risk analysis, and expediting the logistical operations of hospitals.

West said he received the fat reduction surgery because of the way tabloids discussed Rob Kardashian, his brother - in - law, around the time West married Kim Kardashian.

She had knee surgery in 2003 and underwent several procedures in 2011 due to a blood clot in her lung.

If someone does undergo surgery, it is likely to be one that isn't very invasive, like laparoscopic surgery.

• RealSelf, a Seattle - based, the plastic surgery search platform, raised $ 40 million in its first round of funding.

Some people turn to dangerous diet pills or invasive surgery in an attempt for a «quick fix.»

A physician assistant, specializing in neurosurgery, Hensler developed a novel way to separate bone from other tissue and fluid during spinal fusion surgery.

Carmine Simone, chief of surgery at Toronto East General Hospital, had six procedures cancelled over a three - month period in 2013 because the patients had failed to stop taking their medication beforehand.

Sinopharm and Bluestem Capital are investing $ 18 million in Virtual Incision, makers of a miniature robot for general abdominal surgeries.

According to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg swooped in on Tencent's talks to acquire WhatsApp while Ma was recovering from back surgery.

There are also lots of former motorcyclists who have had to give up riding due to everything from a bad back to hip surgery, but have rediscovered their mojo on the Spyder.

After surgery, the app allows patients to track any issues they experience and communicate those electronically to hospital staff.

Many of us have some type of medical policy because if a major accident or illness occurs, the financial cost of a large number of doctor visits or surgeries in a hospital quickly overwhelms our savings.

I personally, and repeatedly, have confronted the big question mark here — commercial viability — and I started with a big problem common to open heart surgery, which is how to remove the clots that restrict blood flow to the lungs and threaten cardiac arrest.

My partners, Mike Glennon and Brian deGuzman, and I, developed AngioVac, a tube inserted into a vein which vacuums clots out of the body, avoiding the need for open surgery.

Kanye West gave a more detailed account of his hospitalization and addiction to opioids, telling TMZ that he received liposuction because he was insecure about his body — and was then prescribed opioid pills after the surgery.

But sometimes there are messages like «I'm recovering from surgery» or «I'm on maternity leave» or «I'm at a conference.»

I had the surgery, and I'm fine now.

I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.

At NYU Langone Medical Center, a team is using 3D printing technology to help plan and execute «Jaw - in - a-day» surgery that was the first of its kind in the United States.

In fact, it's resonated for me for at least 28 years, going back to a bit of hubris I demonstrated as a medical student watching a distinguished Harvard surgeon perform surgery to remove a patient's gall bladder (back before laparoscopic surgery and keyhole incisions became the norm).

South Korean women are held to notoriously high standards for beauty — the country has the most cosmetic surgeries per capita in the world, with almost one million procedures every year.

The 36 - year - old is currently trying to mount a comeback after childbirth and emergency surgery.

Top of the list of investments that will likely pay for themselves (and then some) is robot - assisted surgery, Accenture says.

Another popular one is the «smile surgery,» which makes the person look like they have a slightly upturned mouth at all times.

As with so many other companies on the list, Intuitive Surgical's secret sauce is an intrinsic drive to continually reinvent itself as it reinvents the tools of surgery.

But according to WebMD, about 20 % don't get any relief from pain after surgery.

So when she discovered that year two of her rotation would focus mostly on surgery, Holly decided to take a break from medicine and give working for her dad's company a try.

Plus, most candidates who get bariatric surgery regain the weight.