Word: painful
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...while two of the best seats for Jay-Z's current 28-date Live Nation tour with Mary J. Blige go for $500.00. Anti-trust laws prevent Live Nation from selling more than 10% of its own tickets, but at those prices, 10% adds up fast. For consumers, the pain could be acute. But for Jay-Z, it's a wonderful morning to be in the music business...
Over the past year, U.S. doctors have made strides in the use of a technique called "natural orifice" surgery, an approach they hope will do away with the scarring, pain and the long recoveries associated with some traditional operations...
...days later, the patient, Diana Schlamadinger, a biophysics graduate student at UCSD, was recovering with almost no pain: "I feel kind of like I did too many sit-ups," she said. Schlamadinger said she opted for transvaginal surgery after Dr. Horgan outlined its potential post-operative benefits - and assured her that he had similarly removed 12 gallbladders. That the surgery was experimental was another selling point. "This appealed to the scientist in me," Schlamadinger said. "I was really interested in being a part of something that could help other women in the future not suffer as much...
...expectation is that patients will cope better after the operation with the less-invasive new techniques - no external scarring, less pain (most of Horgan's patients take nothing stronger than Tylenol after surgery), shorter recoveries and no risk of hernia. Surgeons have created a national organization called the Natural Orifice Consortium for Assessment and Research, or NOSCAR, to track the procedure's success and safety, and to collect data on patients' progress. NOSCAR also monitors the risk of infection with natural-orifice surgery, which doctors anticipate will be significantly lower than with traditional laparoscopic procedures - since the longer it takes...
...recent survey of UCSD undergraduates, conducted by Horgan and Talamini, the majority of female respondents said they would choose transvaginal surgery over the traditional alternative, given the benefits of less pain, shorter recovery and no scarring. Talamini plans to present the results of the survey this week in Philadelphia at the annual conference for the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, of which he is the newly appointed president...