The EU's enhanced co-operation procedure allows a minimum of nine EU countries to forge ahead with closer co-operation, even if the others in the 27-nation bloc do not join in.
Agreement over the tax had already been reached before the meeting, and the nod from a majority of the Ecofin group of EU finance ministers - a requirement of the enhanced co-operation procedure - was merely a procedural matter, according to the Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan.
In a 20-minute procedure, the operation involves pinning open the prostate with four clips to move obstructive tissue out of the way.
The US operation is the first time such a procedure has been repeated outside the Turkish hospital which pioneered it.
The US operation was the first time such a procedure had been repeated outside the Turkish hospital which pioneered it.
As I regained my health, I had a lot of time to think about what we always hear about surgery but very rarely actually experience: The recovery from any medical procedure is more difficult than the operation itself.
They believe in what they do and reign as the main arbiters of whether an operation should be performed--and insurers pay per procedure.
However, a few days later it emerged that Owen had indeed had a second minor operation, tightening the screw they inserted during the original procedure.
Mr Nadey Hakim, a surgeon at St Mary's Hospital in London who has taken part in a hand transplant operation in France, said any patient who undergoes the procedure would experience rejection.
While many acknowledge that the general benefits of observing an operation should be available to everyone, such as demystifying a procedure or inspiring future doctors, many feel that to ensure the highest standards of patient safety public broadcast of surgery should be pre-recorded and not a 'live' TV event.
Two landmark studies last year in the New England Journal of Medicine found that a similar spine procedure (vertebroplasty) was no better than a fake operation--raising serious questions over whether the pain relief patients report from kyphoplasty is nothing more than an expensive placebo effect.
One of the first patients to undergo the procedure using the robot was 70-year-old arthritis sufferer May Walker, who had the same operation on her other leg 11 years ago.
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