31.   This new life centered around powerful, mood-altering hormones and invasive surgeries.

32.   They say they can train anybody to do minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery in two days.

33.   With standard minimally invasive surgery, patients stay in the hospital five to seven days.

34.   But it requires longer, more invasive surgery, and some surgical methods cause their own complications.

35.   Doctors could try it on cuts from accidents or for minimally invasive surgery.

36.   Doctors performed minimally invasive surgery to insert a stent into a heart artery that had narrowed to restore full blood flow.

37.   Kyphon makes the KyphX line of surgical instruments, used by orthopedic surgeons for minimally invasive spinal surgeries, usually to repair spine fractures caused by osteoporosis.

38.   Medical businesses in the United States, Germany, Japan and elsewhere are rushing to develop three-dimensional imaging systems that make minimally invasive surgery quicker, easier and safer.

39.   Separately, the Indianapolis-based company also announced the launch of several new products for minimally invasive cardiac surgery.

40.   The systems likely will replace most two-dimensional ones now used for minimally invasive surgery, or MIS.