An earlier surgery had failed to unblock the tubes, but she was still hoping to find a way to have her own child.
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Medtronic is running a 1, 200-patient trial comparing its Kyphon device with the vertebroplasty procedure that failed to beat a fake surgery.
The researchers believe surgery may have failed in some cases because patients were suffering from other diseases of the eye that were overlooked.
His family said he had been admitted to the Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego last week, but had failed to recover fully from surgery.
Instead of singing the praises of the brace, the salesman asked questions including whether, if a spine failed to heal properly post-surgery, that would be considered a successful operation.
Mr Ralphs added that many hospitals had failed to implement new government guidelines on day surgery and were still admitting patients unnecessarily.
Its website says the surgery is appropriate for adults who have failed with more conservative alternatives, such as diet and exercise.
Max Weinberg has endured open-heart surgery, prostate-cancer treatment, two failed back operations, and seven hand operations.
The NHS trust that runs the Royal Lancaster Infirmary has failed in its bid to continue specialist vein and artery surgery at the hospital.
Professor David Sharpe, a consultant plastic surgeon based at Bradford Royal Infirmary, said he had failed to persuade medical insurance companies to pay for breast reduction surgery even in cases where it was obvious that the patient required the operation on medical grounds.
After its opening in 1994 as a specialist heart surgery centre, the anticipated patient numbers at the hospital failed to materialise.
Richard Neale had failed to obtain informed consent for operations and failed to give patients the appropriate information about further problems they were likely to suffer after surgery, Prof Hobbs said.
The mother of a nine-year-old girl who died after surgery at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry has said she is grateful a doctor has finally admitted the hospital failed her daughter.
German drug giant Bayer failed to tell the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of a study that connected a controversial heart surgery drug to dangerous side effects and death, even as FDA convened a panel of experts to evaluate the drug's safety.
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