Hospitals hoping to attract patients and build goodwill are teaming up with medical-screening companies to promote tests they say might prevent deadly strokes or heart disease. What their promotions don't say is that an influential government panel recommends against many of the tests for people without symptoms or risk factors.
Hospitals promote screenings that experts say many people do not need
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