SARASOTA, Fla., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement was issued today by Diagnostic Center for Disease -- "There is currently no convincing evidence that early screening, detection, and treatment improve mortality.

Dr. James Jensen positions himself behind a cockpit- style console and works the controls of his machine like a whiz kid at a video game. Except this is no game.

By Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Oct. 1--Pioneering surgeons long have believed that the precision of remote-controlled surgical "robots" might improve results, but the technology has been slow to catch on.