Bellevue Hospital Bariatric Surgery Program Is Under NY State Scrutiny The Health Dept. is looking into the public hospital’s use of unlicensed technicians during some bariatric surgeries.
Bellevue Hospital Rushes Patients Into Weight-Loss Surgery New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients.
New Technique for Harvesting Donor Organs Is Criticized by Ethicists The technique restarts circulation after an organ donor is declared dead. But first surgeons cut off blood flow to the brain. One surgeon called it “creepy.”
Second Maryland Man to Receive an Altered Pig’s Heart Has Died Researchers said they found signs of organ rejection, which the genetically modified tissue was supposed to prevent.
Bariatric Surgery at 16 If childhood obesity is an ‘epidemic,’ how far should doctors go to treat it?