The report said the rate of pneumonia in adults after surgery decreased more than eleven and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

She is a professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedic surgery at the University of California in Irvine.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Philip Stahel at the Denver Health Medical Center led the study in the Archives of Surgery.

VOA: special.2010.10.20

He accepted the award in a wheelchair after a minor operation became major ankle surgery.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Until the past week, the 83-year-old former leader has avoided the spotlight since undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

That study asked them whether a patient's age and other illnesses might play a role in not recommending chemotherapy after surgery.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

But last year, Freeman had a heart attack. He was told surgery in his hometown of Reno,Nevada, would cost close to $120,000.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Captain Camara was flown to a military hospital in Morocco for surgery for gunshot wounds to the head.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

Americans first began going abroad for cosmetic surgery such as facelifts, breast implants and reductions, and tummy tucks in the 1980s and 90s.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"I knew my doctor was in meetings with American doctors about things like heart surgery techniques."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

The assistant also found a cataract in Rajamanickam's eye, which will require surgery at the hospital.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

In addition,the agency requires the makers of machinery used in LASIK to meet certain standards before the agency will approve any new lasers used in this surgery.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

Meanwhile,25-year-old Caroline Kinyanjui is recovering from her surgery earlier in the week.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

Dr.Mary O'Connor, chairperson of Orthopedic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Florida.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

In recent years, a virtual library of medical research has concluded that, other factors being equal, complex surgery turns out better when it's done at hospitals where the procedure is done a lot.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

"If an actress is getting older and you can tell by looking at her or him that they have had plastic surgery, then that takes away what people liked about that actor in the first place."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was to have attended the G-8 ministerial, and a weekend meeting of OSCE foreign ministers in Greece, but had to cancel because of her recent surgery for a broken elbow.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

(SAYING) One article in the journal reports that while older adults are less likely to receive chemotherapy following colon surgery, they tolerate it better than younger patients and don't get as sick from the therapy.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Nation says as more and more casting directors and filmmakers choose more natural looking talent, actors and actresses will become more cautious about having plastic surgery if their goal is to survive in the highly competitive business.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22