The operation you get often depends where you live

Article Abstract:

Variations in surgical rates across hospital regions in the US result in unnecessary suffering and sometimes even death for patients who undergo surgery without asking the right questions. According to John Baldwin, head of the Dartmouth Medical School, the variations reflect a serious problem with the country's medical system. The 'Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care' described the problem as filled with 'uninformed consent' caused by inadequate medical science, opinion parading as knowledge, over-reliance on inadequately verified diagnostic tools and basic inequities in the health care system.

Surgical Procedures, Surgery

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Millions scour the web to find medical information

Article Abstract:

An estimated 22 million adults in the US reported going to consumer- oriented medical Web sites to find health information in 1998. The online traffic is projected to reach 33 million by the end of 2000. The availability of medical knowledge as well as misinformation on the Internet is causing a dramatic change in the traditional physician-patient relationship, as patients arm themselves with information about alternative medicines and unpublished clinical trials. The Internet consumer health market is expected to reach $1.7 billion by 2003.

On-Line Information Services, Videotex & Teletext, Health Care, Internet services, Medical care

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Scanning a better mix of images

Article Abstract:

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, have developed a prototype of an imaging machine which combines computerized axial tomography with positron emission tomography. One of its developers noted that the hybrid medical imaging device offers real advantages to doctors. Images from the machine possess a resolution down to the one-millimter range. Such machines can, for example, easily tell doctors whether and where cancer tumors have spread.

Product development, Pennsylvania, Irradiation Apparatus Manufacturing, X-Ray Equipment & Parts

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