11.   One senior staffer canceled hand surgery after receiving the treatment, he said.

12.   One Atlanta hospital already had been forced to cancel elective surgeries prior to the Red Cross request.

13.   Patients will have the option of canceling surgery if they and their doctors believe the pig cell grafts yielded substantial benefit.

14.   So much better, in fact, that a previously scheduled back surgery has been canceled.

15.   Some non-emergency surgery has been canceled.

16.   Suddenly, a thumb that had been throbbing for seven weeks felt much better, good enough to cancel his surgery and return to the team.

17.   Surgery was cancelled and weekly phlebotomies began.

18.   Air, sea and rail travel were disrupted, schools closed and at least one hospital canceled elective surgery.

19.   Dozens of hospitals canceled non-emergency surgery Wednesday as protesting health workers refused to staff operating rooms despite a government pledge to pump more money into the health service.

20.   Jamaican hospitals are canceling surgery and at least two patients may have died because the national blood bank is running dry.