41.   A. The principle factor by far is medical innovations like new drugs, new surgical procedures and new diagnostic techniques.

42.   Abortion advocates say many of those women are university students who may prefer the medical abortion offered by the pill to a surgical procedure.

43.   After viewing the videos, patients may decide to put off common but expensive surgical procedures, saving money for Cigna.

44.   All three pitchers will have undergone some type of surgical procedure to cap a season of unfulfilled expectations.

45.   --Allow Medicare to award contracts to hospitals and doctors for certain surgical procedures.

46.   Breast surgeons at several hospitals are perfecting a new technique that can spare many women with newly diagnosed breast cancer the pain and complications of a major surgical procedure.

47.   Brody reasoned that the risks posed by an unproven surgical procedure were far greater than those from a sedative.

48.   Bush did not mention that Cheney had undergone a surgical procedure.

49.   But he was in a hospital bed for seven weeks, and eventually underwent four major operations, several minor surgical procedures and suffered various complications.

50.   But he was in a hospital bed for seven weeks, and eventually underwent four major operations, several minor surgical procedures, and suffered various complications.