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More Americans too fat for X-rays, scans (Reuters)

An overweight pedestrian sits on a wall outside the Houses of Parliament in London, March 31, 2004. HALTH More and more obese people are unable to get full medical care because they are either too big to fit into scanners, or their fat is too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate, radiologists reported on Tuesday. (Toby Melville/Reuters)Reuters - More and more obese people are unable to get full medical care because they are either too big to fit into scanners, or their fat is too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate, radiologists reported on Tuesday.


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