January 20, 1997  Vol. XIV, No. 3

Surgeons Warn of Abuses If Medicare Updates Go Solo

AMA’s Ethics Council Warns Against Genetic-Test Battery

Alzheimer’s Choices Widen


Has managed care gone too far with outpatient mastectomies?


TREATING CHF: Survey finds low use of ACE inhibitors

ASTHMA: In the end, expertise is more economical

ENDARTERECTOMY: Complications pile up for idle hands

AUTOLOGOUS GLUE: A platelet-based gel seals dura

SEED MONEY: A suit asks $70 million for lost sperm


Coronary Radiotherapy
A small study of iridium-192 to prevent smooth-cell proliferation has cardiologists agog


An angiogram shows a string of iridium-192 beads spanning a lesion in the right coronary artery
 


FPs meet rural obstetrical needs

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