The Health Dept. is looking into the public hospital’s use of unlicensed technicians during some bariatric surgeries.
Tag: Surgery and Surgeons
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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.”
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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.
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Bariatric Surgery at 16
If childhood obesity is an ‘epidemic,’ how far should doctors go to treat it?