Prevention: Many False Alarms in Scans That Cut Cancer Deaths
By RONI CARYN RABIN
Federal health officials announced last fall that smokers screened for cancer by low-dose spiral CT scans were 20 percent less likely to die of lung cancer than those who had chest X-rays. But the study’s final results, published online for the first time Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, also describe the downsides of screening, including a high rate of false-positive scares.
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3 accused of not disclosing consulting fees
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Universal Health Care: Can We Afford Anything Less?
Why only a single-payer system can solve America’s health-care mess.
America’s broken health-care system suffers from what appear to be two separate problems. From the right, a chorus warns of the dangers of rising costs; we on the left focus on the growing number of people going without health care because they lack adequate insurance. This division of labor allows the right to dismiss attempts to extend coverage while crying crocodile tears for the 40 million uninsured. But the division between problem of cost and the problem of coverage is misguided. It is founded on the assumption, common among neoclassical economists, that the current market system is efficient.
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