Ct Scans

Doctors Reap Benefits Of Useless Care

Washington Post | Shankar Vedantam | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics


In August 2005, doctors at Urological Associates, a medical practice on the Iowa-Illinois border, ordered nine CT scans for patients covered by Wellma...

Cigarette Company Funded Lung Cancer Study

New York Times | Gardiner Harris | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business


In October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College jolted the cancer world with a study saying that 80 percent of lung cancer deat...