Knee surgery stats prompt changes at US hospitals 
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Among the five health systems, the average time spent in surgery ranged from 80 minutes to 105 minutes, with the one health system that has a dedicated team having the shortest time. That is significant because longer time in surgery is associated with ...
Knee Surgery Statistics Prompt Hospital Changes KWTX

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Tommy John surgery likely for Luebke 
MLB.com
By Sarah Trotto / Special to MLB.com | 05/20/12 4:30 PM ET SAN DIEGO -- Padres left-hander Cory Luebke is "strongly leaning" toward elbow surgery and could undergo the operation as early as later this week, manager Bud Black said Sunday.
BLACK: LUEBKE LEANING TOWARD SURGERY U-T San Diego
Padres select Palmer; Luebke leans toward surgery San Francisco Chronicle
PADRES: Luebke leans toward season-ending surgery North County Times (blog)

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Baseball: Emergency surgery may have saved Mark Ellis' leg 
San Jose Mercury News
AP Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said Sunday that the team doctor told him second baseman Mark Ellis was within several hours of possibly having his left leg amputated if Ellis hadn't had emergency surgery. "That was scary," Mattingly said ...
Surgery for Dodgers infielder Ellis FOXSports.com
Dodgers 2B Mark Ellis has emergency surgery on leg San Francisco Chronicle
Dodgers' Mark Ellis Undergoes Emergency Surgery Baseball Nation
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Baseball: Emergency surgery may have saved Mark Ellis' leg 
Alameda Times-Star
AP Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said Sunday that the team doctor told him second baseman Mark Ellis was within several hours of possibly having his left leg amputated if Ellis hadn't had emergency surgery. "That was scary," Mattingly said ...

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UTHealth Pediatric Surgery Expands Regenerative Medicine Program 
Newswise (press release)
The Department of Pediatric Surgery at the UTHealth Medical School operates a research program devoted to childhood conditions that is seeking to harness the body's regenerative powers to repair malformed organs and to mitigate injury from illness or ...

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All-Star Giroux headlines 5 Flyers needing surgery 
Yahoo! Sports
AP ? Sat, May 19, 2012 2:59 PM EDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) All-Star forward Claude Giroux headlines a list of five Philadelphia Flyers who needed offseason surgery. Giroux had surgery on his right wrist to repair torn cartilage and surgery on left wrist to ...
Flyers' Giroux has surgery on both wrists Fox News
Flyers Notes: Flyers' Giroux, Simmonds, van Riemsdyk have surgery Philadelphia Inquirer
Giroux has surgery on both wrists as five Flyers to go under knife CBSSports.com
FOXSports.com 
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American Idol's Phillip Phillips In Urgent Need of Surgery 
antiMUSIC.com
(TMZ) Phillip Phillips -- one of the finalists on "American Idol" -- has been URGED by his personal doctor to get surgery immediately ... but Phillip wants to work through the pain and the risk so he can win. Multiple "Idol" sources tell us ... when ...
Phillip Phillips to have surgery immediately after 'American Idol' finale ... Reality TV World
'American Idol' finalist Phillip Phillips in need of urgent kidney surgery allvoices
American Idol's Phillip Phillips to Undergo Kidney Surgery Us Magazine
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North Texas Plastic Surgery brings the ?Mommy Makeover? Experience to Plano, Texas 
PR Web (press release)
Sacha Obaid, MD, founder of North Texas Plastic Surgery, helps women regain their pre-pregnancy bodies through the Mommy Makeover Experience. North Texas Plastic Surgery is proud to bring the Mommy Makeover Experience to Plano Texas.

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Apollo Endosurgery Names Former Covidien Chairman and CEO Richard J. Meelia to ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
"Apollo Endosurgery has the potential to lead a fundamental change in patient care in gastrointestinal surgery, including the important areas of gastrointestinal cancer and bariatrics," Meelia said. "The company is at the forefront of endoscopic ...

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Impact of MRSA Nasal Colonization on SSIs After Gastrointestinal Surgery 
Infection Control Today
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal colonization is associated with longer hospital stays and an increase in surgical site infections (SSI) in patients undergoing major gastrointestinal surgery, according to a new study from Scott ...

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