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• Grey’s’ interns get off easy after a close call
Naturally, Sadie’s surgery went south when she actually turned out to have an inflamed appendix, making her whimsical surgery rather serious. Lexie fetched Meredith, while Cristina wised up on her own after finding the still-numb Epidural Guy. Both ...
• FDA looks at risks of cosmetic face fillers
WASHINGTON - The patients are drawn by the allure of ageless beauty. Unfortunately, for some, the result can be blotchy skin, bumps on the face and worse. Hundreds of thousands of cosmetic surgery patients are turning to injections of fillers to ...
• Teen lives 118 days without a heart
Marco Ricci, the hospital's director of pediatric cardiac surgery. During that time, Simmons was mobile but remained hospitalized. When an artificial heart is used to sustain a patient, the patient's own heart is usually left in the body, doctors said
• New artificial ankles work more naturally
Haddad of the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute and an orthopedic surgery professor at Northwestern University. Ripe for growth If the newer implants pan out, it's a market ripe for growth. More than 200,000 people seek care for ankle pain annually ...
• Dr. 90210’ shares his 7 beauty secrets
Nov. 21: Dr. Robert Rey from the hit reality show “Dr. 90210” shares beauty secrets you can do at home. Week after week, Dr. Robert Rey, better known as “Dr. 90210,” hits the floor of the surgery room to nip, tuck, lift and enhance women and ...