101.   Some people have this procedure performed as a religious rite.

102.   Slepian was one of only a handful of doctors in Buffalo who were still willing to perform the procedure in the face of pickets, protesters and threats.

103.   Team doctor Arnold Scheller performed the procedure at New England Baptist Hospital.

104.   The appeals judges wrote that no physicians in Illinois had said they performed this procedure and only a few had done so in Wisconsin.

105.   The bill would have imposed fines and prison terms on any physician who performed the procedure.

106.   The bill would subject doctors who perform the procedure to fines and up to two years in prison.

107.   The company is planning trials on children, but for them, the procedure would be performed under general anesthesia, eliminating one of the advantages.

108.   The doctors performed the procedure, using the machine to fill Mrs. Smart with saline solution and then vaporizing the tumor.

109.   The government does not keep records on how often the procedure is performed.

110.   The intensive care patient improved enough to have the procedure performed and is doing well.