The Nobel committee said the book "is like a surgical operation on one of the most delicate parts of the social body."

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Patients who get antibiotics earlier than one hour are more likely to get an infected surgical wound.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Patients who get them earlier than one hour are more likely to get an infected surgical wound.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

It says urinary tract infections increased more than three and a half percent after a surgical operation.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

In the nineteen twenties, American Claude Beck performed the first surgical operations to repair damaged hearts.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

Doctors can perform a surgical operation to repair either abnormality after the baby is born.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

It is currently the most common surgical operation among women of reproductive age.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

A surgical operation called deep-brain stimulation also is used to treat Parkinson's disease.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

The most common are infections of the urinary tract, surgical site and bloodstream.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

These surgical residents were at seventeen medical centers in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

This return to normalcy occurred just four months after the surgical procedure, with newly grown cartilage fully covering the joint surface.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

His physician,Dr.Richard Jonas, still gets regular progress reports on EJ and thousands of other patients from a surgical registry.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

We are going to have to be surgical and we are going to have to be creative.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

"And that I believe is one of the reasons why he decided to resort to surgical interventions.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

Both the author and the editorial writer suggested that looking at volume of surgery alone may not be the best way of predicting surgical success.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Some of them have surgical masks or other things to cover their noses. We've just come upon the large plaza near many government buildings downtown.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

Nearby,soldiers guarding a street corner wear surgical masks issued to them by their commanders.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The number of surgical deliveries has been increasing for years.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

The aid group Doctors Without Borders says at some of its surgical centers there is a 10 to 12 day backlog of patients, some of whom are dying from infection of untreated wounds.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21