Study finds too many invasive heart tests given

Thursday, March 11, 2010

NEW YORK -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.

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