In other words, insurance companies could find some other, less-invasive way to capture mileage, they said.
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Doctors are researching whether the less-invasive surgery could reduce risks and eliminate scars while delivering similar results.
The best performers included Mako Surgical, which makes a less-invasive knee surgery procedure, was the best-performing stock in August.
The short-term risk of surgery can affect patients' treatment decision, especially given the prospect of open-heart surgery and weeks of recovery, compared with a less-invasive angioplasty.
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The statistics, which also covered many other types of surgery and other less-invasive procedures, were based on a survey of 772 actively practicing plastic surgeons, dermatologists and otolaryngologists.
Lee and colleagues are working on a less-invasive technique.
Richard Randall pocketed enough money to retire before the age of 40 by taking public a little company called Target Therapeutics, a developer of less-invasive devices for treatment of aneurysms and stroke.
Bolli has refined his procedure to make it less invasive -- stem cells can now be taken through a catheter -- and none of the patients in cardiac stem cell trials have suffered serious adverse effects.
But Vaughan had another option for Caletti--a new, less invasive procedure called balloon sinuplasty.
Recognizing that terrorists are willing to manipulate societal norms to evade detection, TSA has been actively assessing less invasive screening methods for low-risk populations, such as younger passengers, while still maintaining a high level of security.
So these latter issues (AdWords API, AdWords for Search, scraping, and standards-essential patents) are less prominent and invasive.
Heat-sensing technologies and puffer machines provide another less invasive screening option.
Studies show that patients undergoing minimally invasive surgery have a quicker recovery and less short-term pain than with open repair.
But bomb-sniffing dogs also meet the threshold of more effective and less invasive.
To the extent we can deploy less invasive technologies and still effectively secure an airplane, we should do so -- immediately.
The biopsies can be done through an endoscopy, in which a fiber-optic tube is placed in the mouth and down into the small bowel or through some even less invasive procedures.
But now, NeuroSky (a fab(u)less startup of US chip designers and Russian neuroscientists chillin' in NorCal) claims a "breakthrough" in non-invasive neural sensors allowing low-cost, dry (no contact gels) neural mapping solutions to be applied to those things you'd most like to mind control (spouse, voters, TV, game console, cellphone).
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