Better technology can bring better care u and higher costs

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CT and MRI scans, selected as the most valuable of medical innovations in 2001, are costly scanners. A study of healthcare spending associated with the availability of new technologies found that adding freestanding MRI or CT units is associated with the availability higher outpatient spending on scans.

HEALTH SERVICES, Innovations, Health care industry, Technology application, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, CT imaging, CAT scans, Magnetic resonance imaging

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Lung cancer deadlier than breast cancer for women

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Lung cancer has had the doubtful and little-known distinction of being the leading cancer killer of women since 1987. As per American Cancer Society, in the cases of women cancer deaths, lung cancer is responsible for 25% where as breast cancer for 15%.

Health aspects, Mortality, Women, Risk factors, Lung cancer

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