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JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon underwent a successful tracheotomy Sunday to help wean him off a respirator that has been helping him breathe, but the Israeli leader’s failure to regain ...
A surgeon at Chicago’s Sacred Heart Hospital is accused of performing unneeded tracheotomies to enable the for-profit hospital to collect as much as $160,000 per case, Bloomberg reports. Investigators ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Doctors were consulting about the possibility of performing a tracheotomy on Pope John Paul II, who was hospitalized Thursday after suffering fever and congestion from a ...
Oct. 22, 2025—The emotional strain on parents and other caregivers faced with deciding whether a tracheotomy is the best treatment for their child is hard to measure. The latest clinical practice ...
Oct. 22, 2025—The emotional strain on parents and other caregivers faced with deciding whether a tracheotomy is the best treatment for their child is hard to measure. The latest clinical practice ...