Lawsuits blame postsurgical infections on a single source - contaminated sutures.
The Science of Incision As far as the cutting edge goes, today's surgical tools aren't that much different from their ivory-handled Renaissance forebears. But between the scalpel and the flesh lies an ever-expanding layer of technology embracing everything from virtual reality to robotics. Every week, it seems, brings a new food scare. And each scare, whether valid or dead wrong, has the potential to jolt the nation's diet. But ever since apple sales plummeted a decade ago, after a report by CBS News demonized the chemical Alar, food producers, crying foul, have been fighting back.