In case you missed it: no-cut obesity surgery, cost of looking inside heart, care for eating disorders
In Saturday's Globe:
Brigham and Women's Hospital, in a first-of-its kind medical trial, has performed a weight-loss procedure that does not require any cutting, offering the possibility of a safer, less traumatic operation to help address the nation's obesity epidemic.
In Sunday's New York Times:
Driven by financial incentives, many doctors are adopting heart scans called CT angiograms, but there is scant evidence that they benefit most patients.
In Saturday's LA Times:
Insurance companies too often deny needed treatment to eating-disorder patients -- sometimes with tragic consequences, David Herzog, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harris Center for Advocacy in Eating Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital, writes with Nancy Matsumoto and Marcia Herrin, coauthors of "The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders" in an opinion piece.
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