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...They did an ultrasound on me," he says. "Halfway through, the guy turned the screen away from me, and then left the room...
...bribes, kickbacks and a bogus kidney- stone machine. Most of the stories focused on an FBI agent, posing as a businessman, who waved cash in front of NASA employees at Houston's Johnson Space Center to interest them in a "lithotriptor" -- a device that dissolves kidney stones with ultrasound. While such devices do exist and might actually serve a purpose in space (where kidney stones can develop in weightlessness), this one was just a box filled with lights and wires -- and the NASA staffers knew it. Agency employees and contractors were allegedly bribed to help book...
...Ultrasound exams may still be a vital diagnostic tool for women with high- risk pregnancies whose doctors know what they are looking for. But a six- year study of low-risk mothers who had undergone the procedure found that their children had exactly the same rate of birth defects, 5%, as those of women who didn't bother with it. "This is an example of the unnecessary testing that is driving up our health-care costs," said the lead investigator, Bernard Ewigman of the University of Missouri at Columbia. "Our findings are quite dramatic, and will surprise many physicians...
...Though they are routinely administered to pregnant women as a way to detect fetal defects, expensive ultrasound screenings have not led to an increase in healthy babies. Experts now say the test should be done only in high-risk cases or at a woman's request...
...Lakebergs' time of hard choices began just before Christmas. About 13 weeks into Reitha's pregnancy, the Wheatfield, Indiana, couple learned through an ultrasound test that she was carrying Siamese, or conjoined, twins. Such cases are rare; they happen when a fertilized egg splits incompletely during early cell division. About 40 such sets of twins -- or 1 in 50,000 births -- occur in the U.S. each year. Few of the pairs live long enough for separation to be considered. The Lakebergs' doctors had put the likelihood of one twin surviving at no more than 20% and suggested an abortion...