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Why are prices for medical care such a mystery?
Ted Kamp wanted to make sure his daughter received the medical treatment she needed. That was his first priority. His second was making sure his insurance would cover things and that he'd pay a fair price for any procedures. The fact that this...
Tags: Networking, MRI (imaging), Prices, Medical Procedures and Tests, Cigna Corporation
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Screenings to help treat the right cancers
Cancer is running out of places to hide. A new blood test can ferret out a single cancer cell tucked away among a billion healthy cells. Radiologists are using crystal-clear 3-D mammograms to find suspicious spots and lumps that they never could have seen...
Tags: Health Treatments, Medical Procedures and Tests, Chemotherapy, Breast Cancer, Science and Technology
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State senator pushes bill on breast cancer screening
PolitiCalState Sen. Joseph Simitian (D-Palo Alto) is resurrecting a bill to strengthen breast cancer screenings after it was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year. The legislation would require patients to be told if they have dense breast tissue, which...... -
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Cut back on mammograms?
For years, breast cancer awareness campaigns have urged women over 40 to get a yearly mammogram. When women hesitate to comply, it's often to avoid the discomfort of having their breasts squeezed or the fear of getting called back for more tests, even...Tags: Health Treatments, Social Issues, Oncology, Death, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Technology expands breast cancer screening options
Special to the Los Angeles TimesBreast-cancer-screening isn't like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's harder. It's like looking for needles in a big field of haystacks, where some of the haystacks have needles, while most don't, but you don't know which are which, so you have to...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Procedures and Tests, Science and Technology, Medical Research, Tumors
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Medical report says airport scanners pose no significant health threat
Money & CompanyThe radiation doses emitted by the most common airport scanners are extremely small and pose no significant health risk, according to a new report by a doctor at UC San Francisco. Still, Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a doctor at the university's radiology...... -
May 6 buzz: How to stop healthcare costs from going up; the benefit of Superman going global
Opinion L.A.Most viewed and commented: Diagnosis as disease Are doctors overmedicating their patients, and subsequently raising healthcare costs? That's what H. Gilbert Welch contends. The practicing physician and professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute... -
Changing course mid career
Life often takes unexpected twists and turns, as it did for Jeff Henry, 29, of Huntington Beach. Henry always knew he wanted to be a teacher. He was a volunteer coach in a youth program and quickly realized teaching went hand in hand with coaching. With a...Tags: Justice System, Economy, Business and Finance, Emergency Planning, Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Specialization
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Overuse of CT scans will lead to new cancer deaths, a study shows
Widespread overuse of CT scans and variations in radiation doses caused by different machines -- operated by technicians following an array of procedures -- are subjecting patients to high radiation doses that will ultimately lead to tens of thousands...Tags: New York University, Social Issues, Drugs and Medicines, Death, Medical Procedures and Tests
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'My Father's Bonus March' by Adam Langer
My Father's
Bonus March
Adam Langer
Spiegel & Grau: 244 pp., $26
In June 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, a ragtag collection of World War I veterans converged on Washington, D.C., to demand money the government had promised them. About...Tags: Corruption, Herbert Clark Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, World War I (1914-1918), Documentary (genre)
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4 patients say Cedars-Sinai did not tell them they had received a radiation overdose
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center did not tell all 206 patients who received radiation overdoses during CT scans of the hospital's error, according to the accounts of four people who said they only came to understand what happened to them through news reports....Tags: Dennis Quaid, Hair and Nails, Medical Procedures and Tests, X-rays, Hair Loss
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