"The hospital culture is geared to high-tech treatments," he said.

Decades of government and societal choices have de-emphasized public health and disease prevention in favor of medical care and high-tech treatment.

Innovative high-tech medical treatments -organ transplants, for instance - can run to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The one certainty is that the debate will sharpen as laser hair removal and other high-tech treatments beckon to a youth-obsessed population.

Doctors who spent more-on extra tests or high-tech treatments, for instance-didn't get better results than their more conservative colleagues.

So far, these pets are the only two client-owned dogs that have received such a high-tech treatment.

He was eligible for a high-tech experimental treatment that had been tried on only two other people, and it was too soon to know the consequences.

That would rein in excessive testing and high-tech treatment - a powerful brake on runaway costs.

Doctors prescribe baths, massage and more high-tech treatments, like irrigation of the intestines or "magnetic therapy."

This high-tech treatment can help you learn to loosen tight muscles by using your mind to control your body.