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...would also raise the questions: what would happen to embryos awaiting implantation? Approximately 400,000 of them have been cryo-preserved in U.S. fertility clinics. Unused embryos are sometimes stored for later use, donated to others or given to scientists, according to Barbara Collura, executive director of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association. "We support the patient's right to determine the disposition of the embryos," Collura says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Fertilized Eggs Have Rights? | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...huge blood supply. When the tumor is removed by ordinary surgery, patients lose an average three pints of blood; some have lost as much as eight, and died on the operating table. At the University of Michigan, Dr. Walter Work and Dr. Mansfield F. W. Smith pioneered a cryo-surgical technique for the removal of angiofibromas with negligible bleeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Cold That Cures | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

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