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“PIGS in the drawing-rooms and kitchens of the houses in Ireland” – America’s peculiar ideas of existing conditions in Ireland. Speaking at the Dublin Rotary Club yesterday, Mr MJ Rowan, a ...

In the latter case, we called a high shot and stood ready for the pig to get back up, but petals from the bullet had blown down through the thoracic cavity and cut through the heart.

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They also noted the baby had a birth defect called an omphalocele, where the abdominal contents protrude into a thin-walled sac outside of the abdominal cavity, according to the NIH.

Finally, a scan showed that Mr. Thoma had cancer in his appendix and abdominal cavity.

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Up to 90% of abdominal surgeries result in adhesions -- abnormal scarring that ties together organs and tissues. A gel has now been shown to prevented adhesions in mice and pigs.

AbbVie said on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its drug for complicated intra-abdominal infections, including those caused by drug-resistant bacteria.