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That is the kind of sentiment that proponents of the technique are hoping for. Using patients' natural openings (the mouth, vagina or rectum) as entry points to the body is perhaps the intuitive next step to laparoscopic surgery - which, while significantly less invasive than open surgery, still requires several tiny incisions through the abdominal wall. Cutting through abdominal muscle is not only painful, but can also cause complications: up to 5% of (or 50,000) surgery patients later develop hernias, Horgan estimates. The new technique requires cutting too, but generally just one incision through internal tissue - of the stomach, vagina...
...MORE HONEST TALLY On April 1, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced a mandatory federal standard for defining dropouts. Next step: keeping in school those most at risk...
...accountability that are at the heart of how we're re-energizing our organization. We expect charges of 900 million euros [$1.4 billion] in our second quarter, based on the results of a thorough review and audit of turnkey and other similar projects. This is a painful but necessary step toward getting our businesses moving forward faster. It's also a step that will bring about a "no surprises, no excuses" Siemens culture going forward...
...Free Tibet” signs and “Genocide Olympics” banners in Harvard Square, the Olympic torch began its journey around the world. As Beijing officials prepare to welcome both the Games and the world on August 8, activists from across the globe are stepping up calls for countries to boycott the Games. Yet such calls are both unrealistic and futile in effecting positive change—not only does a boycott fail to improve the plight of those affected by China’s actions, but such a step does, in fact, concretely harm the athletes...
...They’re putting on the roller skates, now they’re about to step on the rink,” says Chad Hugo, one half of producing duo The Neptunes. Hugo’s co-producer and N.E.R.D frontman Pharrell Williams was responsible for signing Chester French to Star Trak Entertainment, an imprint of Interscope Records, over a year...