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Debate continues over merits of lobotomy procedure.(Briefly Noted)

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Publication Date: 01-AUG-05
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Manisses Communications Group, Inc.

Decades after doctors stopped performing lobotomies, debate over the controversial procedure has reappeared.

According to the Associated Press, a medical historian is claiming that the surgery did help about 10% of the estimated 50,000 Americans who underwent the procedure between the mid-1930s and the 1970s.

The surgery left many...

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