You Have to Gamble on Your Health
By H. GILBERT WELCH
Hanover, N.H.
EARLY October brought two developments in the world of cancer screening: the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with its calls for regular mammograms for women, and a new recommendation from the United States Preventive Services Task Force that healthy men not undergo screening for prostate cancer.
It’s a stark juxtaposition: screening is good for women and bad for men. But just how different are these two cancer screening tests?
Prostate Test Finding Leaves a Swirl of Confusion
By TARA PARKER-POPEBruce Powell/University of Chicago Medical Center, via Associated Press
For men living with a diagnosis of prostate cancer, the news that the P.S.A. test does more harm than goodhas been unsettling and confusing.
After all, that is the test that first led to their diagnosis — and, often, a painful and traumatic course of treatment.
And now they tell us it doesn’t work?
Published on Monday, October 10, 2011 by iWatch News
'Occupy Wall Street' Should Also Take Aim at Health Insurance Companies
Health insurers trade group is calling the tune in Washington
The lobbyists for U.S. health insurers surely have to be feeling a little uneasy knowing that thousands of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who have been marching and protesting in Washington as well as New York and other cities might target them in the days ahead. After all, the headquarters of the insurers’ biggest lobbying and PR group, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., is just blocks away from Freedom Plaza, where the demonstrators have set up camp, and problems with health insurers appear to be near the top of the list of protesters’ concerns.
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