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Problematic Medical Scans

The message for patients and their doctors is clear: restrict the use of CT scans to cases where they can truly aid in diagnosis and consider other options....

This New York Times Editorial focuses on this subject

CT scans have long been cited as a prime example of how the overuse of fancy medical technologies can drive up the cost of health care. Now there are newly voiced concerns that computed tomography, or CT, may be a health risk as well.

Surgery: 140 pounds drop!!

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In the United States, where two-thirds of the population is either overweight or obese, weight-loss surgeries have increased in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While the surgeries are successful at helping people lose weight and reduce their risk for hypertension, diabetes and other chronic illnesses -- patients have to carefully weigh the benefits of the procedure with the serious risks, side effects and even death in some cases.