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...hand, Medicare is seeking reimbursement by implant makers for tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars it has paid out to treat injuries the agency says were caused by the products. That effort took a big step forward two weeks ago when a federal appeals court in Atlanta, reversing a lower court, said the government?s suit against Bristol Myers Squibb, Baxter International, 3M, Union Carbide and Union Carbide Chemical and Plastics, could proceed...
...Baron. "The ultimate stimulus for our nomadic generation." Taking the notion of cell phone as appendage, architect David Rockwell called on the tattoo for inspiration and created a voice-activated Patch Phone, right. "It addresses how to connect the phone to a person's body, not in the cyborg-implant kind of way but similar to a nicotine patch," says Rockwell. It could also become fashionable, like a piece of jewelry. Just remember to turn...
...cochlear implant is a technological miracle that has restored hearing to thousands of children with severe to profound hearing loss. But according to a study conducted by the FDA and the CDC, children who receive implants are more than 30 times as likely to develop bacterial meningitis infections. These infections, even when treated with antibiotics, are lethal in some 10% of cases...
...skin with lovable characters or subtle writing. Nip/Tuck (FX, Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) uses a scalpel and liposuction hose. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Sean MacNamara (Dylan Walsh) are wealthy Miami plastic surgeons--the former a seductive bad boy, the latter moral but uptight--and this subtle-as-an-implant drama shies away from neither their work's ethical implications nor its grossness. (Don't fix a snack before watching them carve up a patient's face like a radish rosette.) FX aspires to be the poor man's HBO, and if the bad-cop drama The Shield...
...complicates its morality--the "bad-guy" doctor is charming and perceptive, while the "good guy" is a clueless father and husband--and it's a timely, unsparing psychological look at, well, the psychology of looks. "All I want to do," Murphy says, referring to the J. Lo--inspired buttocks-implant fad, "is explore the reasons you would dislike yourself so much that you would have plastic dress shields shoved up your butt...