1.   Some hospitals are using twins to gather information on a variety of diseases.

2.   Almost all hospitals use a wrist-band of some kind with your name and details on it.

3.   She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years, but he just went into another tantrum.

4.   And more hospitals are using extensive marketing surveys and focus groups to find untapped corners of a shrinking market.

5.   And indeed, some Columbia hospitals apparently used the records solely that way.

6.   And rural hospitals could use such a network to quickly transmit X-rays to research hospitals.

7.   Both areas of investigation signal a further expansion of the federal inquiry into the procedures Columbia hospitals used for reporting expenses to the government.

8.   All four hospitals use ultra-fast scanning devices to improve their diagnoses with sharper imaging.

9.   But Medicare has no reimbursement category for dying patients, and although one is being tested by the federal government, few hospitals are using it.

10.   Closure Medical is testing a thicker version of Dermabond that hospitals could use on more-serious injuries.