91.   Medtronic also is undertaking clinical trials of a surgical procedure to treat fecal incontinence, spokesman Reid said.

92.   Mifepristone-induced abortions are more time-consuming and potentially more difficult than the standard surgical procedure.

93.   Medicare was designed to pay for acute care such as an illness or surgical procedure, she said.

94.   Most patients, Fields said, can be helped with drugs such as Tegretol and less invasive surgical procedures.

95.   Mothers undergo treatment with fertility drugs so that doctors can collect a dozen or more eggs in a minor outpatient surgical procedure.

96.   Not all new surgical procedures involve cutting into the brain.

97.   New legislation seeks to exclude surgical procedures from patent protection.

98.   Nobody wants a bleary-eyed beginning doctor, numb after extraordinarily long hours without rest, to be making critical medical decisions or performing surgical procedures.

99.   Now some steps are performed simultaneously instead of consecutively, surgical procedures are standardized and patients spend a shorter time with an uncomfortable breathing tube down their throats.

100.   One problem confronting women with breast cancer is the varying interpretation of which surgical procedures fall under the category of breast reconstruction.