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...Canada, the government bureaucracy decides who will get what procedure and when. Regulatory prohibitions make health care “equal,” but in so doing destroy the profit motives that made quality care available in the first place. Orange County, Calif. does not have more MRI machines than the entire country of Canada because the citizens of Orange County care more about health than Canadians do. Orange County has more MRI machines because doctors benefit financially from operating them...
...like we crashed and burned," a tear-stained Racine said. "I'm very proud of that fifth place, especially when I know more effort went into our fifth place finish than anyone else tonight." Effort that could result in surgery for Johnson, depending on the results of an MRI scheduled for today...
Small companies are generally reluctant to tangle with big ones in patent disputes, which can take years and cost millions of dollars. But recent cases--including a 1997 judgment in which Fonar Corp. won $128 million from General Electric over use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology--have persuaded more lawyers to represent the little guys on a contingency basis. "Lawyers today realize there are efficient ways to handle these cases," says Frederick Tecce of Philadelphia, a former U.S. attorney who now takes patent cases. Tecce represents designer Eric Hicks, who has sued Nike over popular TV commercials in which...
Collaborating with researchers at Stanford University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel, Wagner, whose studio is in San Francisco, began using magnetic-resonance-imaging (MRI) machines and electron microscopes as cameras, magnifying or looking inside objects as prosaic as corncobs and as elusive as dividing cells. The resulting work, collected in the show "Cross Sections" (beginning Nov. 3 at the San Jose Museum of Art), takes the typical still life and turns it, sometimes literally, inside...
...Power systems, currently enjoying a $40 billion order backlog, can work with utilities to maximize efficiency and eventually offer forecasting technology to better predict electricity demand. Medical, which Immelt transformed from a $4 billion imaging-equipment vendor into a $7 billion, full-fledged systems provider, not only sells MRI machines to hospitals but also monitors the hardware over the Internet and supplies software to manage billing, create digital patient records and reduce errors. "[Immelt's mandate] is to see 20% to 30% of their revenue come out of intellectual content--software and other information that can enhance productivity," says Nicholas...