Delivered in spare and amusing prose, Design Is a Job is a book to be judged not by its cover, but by its spine.
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Instead, authors repeatedly asserted the device, called Infuse, caused few complications, according to the report by The Spine Journal, the official publication of the North American Spine Society.
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In an interview with the BBC, Professor Khan credited the success of the operation to his anaesthetist, Dr Mubashir Zia, who he said had made the operation possible by rendering the spine numb using an epidural, rather than by general anaesthesia.
Joining LaBute's work are "The Price" by Lena Kitsopoulou from Greece, "The Breakout" by Anders Lustgarten from Britain, "The Birth of My Violence" by Marco Canale from Spain and "Spine" by Clara Brennan from Britain.
As new allegations surface daily about graft in the governing Workers' Party, Mr Felipe may decide to show his spine by being tough on foreign drug firms.
When these medicines don't work, there are local anesthetics, and drugs delivered directly into the spine by pumps such as those made by Medtronic (nyse: MDT - news - people ).
He cautioned that the mambalgins worked by injections into the spine so would need "significant development" before they could be used in people.
When Timothy Roberson, a 48-year-old former tire-factory worker, had his spine fused by surgeon Kevin Foley at Memphis's Methodist University Hospital in August 2000, he says Dr. Foley didn't tell him of his relationship with Medtronic.
His spine had been wracked by a torn disc, torn ligaments and arthritis.
He threw out roughly one-third to one-half of them, many of which were annotated, and the rest have to be hand-cleaned individually by running a vacuum over the spine and sides.
Anesthesiologists paralyze patients undergoing sensitive surgeries on the spine, brain or heart by bathing cellular receptors with strong muscle relaxants.
Medtronic 's ( MDT - news - people ) spine surgery business is dominated by a procedure called spinal fusion, in which two of the segments of the backbone, called vertebrae, are fused together using metal rods and cages, bone taken from elsewhere in the body, and protein drugs that stimulate bone growth.
It builds bone density by 5% to 10% in the spine and hip and cuts in half the risk of a debilitating hip fracture.
Assuming that the skeleton really is that of the king as the DNA experts at Leicester contend, having connected him to a Canadian carpenter named Michael Ibsen, who is directly descended from King Richard's mother its curvature of the spine implies that Shakespeare only slightly exaggerated by making him hunchbacked.
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Nine years ago the Oklahoma Spine Hospital popped up across town, owned by a handful of its doctors.
Richard III was portrayed as deformed by some Tudor historians and indeed the skeleton's spine is badly curved, a condition known as scoliosis.
This can be just the result of the excess pressure placed on the nerve or it can also be caused by neck or back trauma, a herniated disk in the spine, or a mass (such as a tumor or infection).
Texas Spine is one of 260 or so that is threatened by language in the health reform bill that bans physicians from owning hospitals.
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Many of the executed men suffered multiple wounds, inflicted by a sharp-bladed weapon, to the skull, jaw and upper spine, all thought to relate to the process of decapitation, the Dorset County Council said.
It puts some spine into political journalism that is often timid and afraid to call out attempts by politicians to fool or mislead.
He or an untrained staffer would induce labor, deliver the baby alive, and then perform the procedure they called by the chilling euphemism "snipping" slashing the infant to death with scissors to the neck and spine.
This is a woman that has a very strong spine, has a very good heart, and has had a life that she has worked herself up by her own bootstraps.
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