The latest and greatest technology isn’t necessarily better medicine:
Computer-aided detection systems not only failed to detect more breast cancer in women who had screening mammograms, researchers report in tomorrow’s New England Journal of Medicine, but it also may have harmed them by generating a higher number of false-positive readings, resulting in significantly more call-backs for repeat mammograms and biopsies.
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