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• Rethinking Mammograms - What the Breast Cancer Experts Now Recommend. The Risks, the Benefits, and Who Gains the Most From Regular Screening

  
  Happy Healthy Long Life — Authority: 119
  "Im admitting that American medicine has overpromised when it comes to screening.  The advantages to screening have been exaggerated." -Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, on Oct. 21, 2009- Dr. Brawleys comment, which appeared in the New York Times (read the article here ), ...
  1 week ago

• Preventive Medicine - Is It Now Politically Correct To Brush It Aside?

  
  Better Health — Authority: 595
  As a class of human beings, cardiologists do not enjoy subtlety or nuance. Indeed, the reason most of them chose to specialize in cardiology, as opposed to specializing in some other organ system, is that the heart is the most unsubtle organ in the body. Unlike, say, the liver or the kidneys or even the brain (which, ...
  1 week ago

• The cancer screening kerfuffle erupts again: “Rethinking” screening for breast and prostate cancer

  
  Science-Based Medicine — Authority: 131
  I see that the kerfuffle over screening for cancer has erupted again to the point where it’s found its way out of the rarified air of specialty journals to general medical journals and hence into the mainstream press. Over the last couple of weeks, articles have appeared in newspapers such as the New York Times ...
  1 week ago

• Employee Health Screening

  
  Health Promotion Tips — Authority: 106
  Why Offer Employee Health Screening Employee health screening , typically offered through a health fair or wellness fair, are among the best ways to identity past, current, and potential health issues among a companies employees. When used in conjunction with the health risk assessments, employee health screenings ...
  2 weeks ago

• Diabetic Symptoms – What Are Its Signs, Diagnosis And How Can You Prevent It?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  The onset of diabetes symptoms is varied, depending on its particular type. Most Type 2 diabetes cases have a slow onset, taking years before the signs start to appear. However, in Type 1 cases, particularly in children, the symptoms may appear rapidly, taking only months or even weeks.The most obvious signs of ...
  3 weeks ago

• American Cancer Society changes stance on cancer screening

  
  Blast: Boston's Online Magazine — Authority: 595
  If you ask the average American for the best advice you can give your friends and family when it comes to cancer, you will almost certainly hear that screening and early detection are the best tools we have. And for the longest time, that’s what we’ve heard from our doctors and the media. But the times, they are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Barriers, Behaviors, Sub-cultures and the Homeless Population

  
  ? Dare To Dream... — Authority: 389
  I really enjoy reading the blog Kellevision.com . She says it like it is and seldom misses the point of what shes writing about. She identifies a problem in programming for homelessness and proposes a set of concepts to help clarify the situation. Image via Wikipedia Many of the "barriers" faced by the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Free health screenings this weekend at 9Health Fair

  
  JVA's Nonprofit Street — Authority: 120
  On October 17 and 18, the 9Health Fair will take place at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City. The event is offering over 20 free health screenings including health screenings for men and women, diabetes and blood pressure screenings, immunizations for children ages 4-18 and children’s vision and oral ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Mammomat 1000

  
  Oddity 59 — Authority:
  The Mammomat 1000. The black ‘base’ contains the X-Ray plate, while the perspex ‘plate’ squishes the breast. A couple of weeks ago I received a letter, not quite out of the blue, giving me a time and place for my routine mammogram. It’s a smart move: instead of a letter asking you to call for an ...
  8 weeks ago

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