Some doctors advise very close monitoring, with screenings via ultrasound or MRIs twice a year.
She said they often do not show up on standard medical tests such as MRIs.
Neuroeconomists use devices, like MRIs, to observe the behavior of real people buying and selling things.
Americans often pay several times more for MRIs and CT scans than people pay in other countries.
In medicine, equipment for ultrasounds, x-rays and MRIs can deliver results directly to doctors at the bedside.
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Doctors will use MRIs and CAT scans to determine what approach they'll have to take for the broken tibia.
The MRIs can tell how much brain tissue can be saved, and those patients with irreversible damage don't get the drug.
Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have stuck with the old ways, shunning modern medical tools such as MRIs and CAT scan machines.
Finally in May 2010 after spinal taps, neuropsychological testing, MRIs and other tests, the doctor told him he had early onset Alzheimer's.
He, too, thought about lawyers and sent Peter to get two MRIs.
We would see the same kind of real-cost reductions in MRIs and in every other aspect of medicine, except in the salaries for medical personnel.
Under the Affordable Care Act, beginning January 1st, sales of medical devices from implants to MRIs, research equipment and surgical instruments bear a 2.3 percent tax.
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"You can have a patient from the hospital with abdominal pain as an example, and you can run him through every high-tech equipment, CT scan, MRIs -- it's unlimited, " Zelt said.
Rival radiology clinics sued when CareCore refused to recommend upright MRIs, a new system that allows patients to be positioned in weight-bearing posture to see what might be causing them pain.
One Huthwaite-trained medical device salesman was asked by a hospital group to submit a sales proposal for some big machines like MRIs and X-ray devices that go for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
One Huthwaite-trained medical device salesman was asked by a hospital group to submit a sales proposal for some big machines like MRIs and X-ray devices that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Universal health care advocates pretend that there is no rationing in France and Germany because these countries don't have long waiting lines for MRIs, surgical procedures and other medical services as in England and Canada.
"The belief is that without a doubt, the injury occurred during that rehab outing, but I think it's real fair to speculate that there was something there, laying dormant, that wasn't detectable during regular MRIs, " Cashman said.
"Surgeons need to stay sterile, but they also need access to patient records, images, scans, X-rays and MRIs, " said Jamie Tremaine, chief executive of Toronto-based GestSure, adding that they sometimes have to scrub out and scrub back in to access records.
Economists' initial excitement at being able to enliven their seminars with pictures of parts of the brain lighting up in response to different experiments (so much more interesting than the usual equations) has led to a recognition of the limits of MRIs.
Theory ran afoul of antitrust law in the Carecore case, however, where executives there were accused of refusing to deal with New York-area radiologists who provided upright MRIs, a new system that allows patients to be positioned in weight-bearing posture to see what might be causing them pain.
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Doctors, hospitals, surgeons and specialists providing critical care to the elderly such as surgery for hip and knee replacements, sophisticated diagnostics through MRIs and CT scans, and even treatment for cancer and heart disease will shut down and disappear in much of the country, and others would stop serving Medicare patients.
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Doctors, hospitals, surgeons and specialists providing critical care to the elderly such as surgery for hip and knee replacements, sophisticated diagnostics through MRIs and CT scans, and even treatment for cancer and heart disease would shut down and disappear in much of the country, and others would stop serving Medicare patients.
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