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• Testicular Cancer May Leave Lasting Effects

  
  EveryJoe — Authority: 158
  Testicular cancer in men is one of the taboo subjects in life – we don’t talk about it, likely because it most frequently happens in younger men between the ages of 15 and 34 years. And, testicular self-examination is much like breast self-examination was many years ago, something else we don’t talk about. ...
  6 days ago

• Big Government the Wrong Answer on Health Care

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  Last weekend Democrats in the U.S. Senate took another step toward passing their government run healthcare legislation.  The more we have come to learn about this legislation, the more we all have cause to be concerned about this plan. It fundamentally does not focus on patients or on quality care.  In fact, it ...
  1 week ago

• Early detection decreases death rate from breast cancer

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 115
  The recent brouhaha created by the ill timed, ill worded, ill phrased (or is it just ill) report from the USPSTF (US Preventative Services Task Force) has stirred the pot to be sure.  We support individualized treatment of patients.  We applaud the tailoring of medical testing and procedures to individual needs and ...
  1 week ago

• Carly Fiorina slams new mammogram guidelines

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New York, Nov 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The California Senate candidate and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is slamming the new mammogram guidelines. She says that, “the new breast cancer advice defies common sense.”Carly Fiorina learned she had breast cancer in February 2008 and then she underwent surgery in March. When ...
  1 week ago

• Health and insurance and politics and behavior

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  This post will make you uncomfortable. You should read it anyway. Im going to talk about health behaviors and dangerous diseases. And we dont like to think about disease and death, and so we avoid it. Instead, we talk around disease and death. For example, right now, there is a real uproar over the recommendation ...
  1 week ago

• Firestorm follows US panel’s ruling on mammograms

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 19 (DPA) The US government moved Wednesday to quell a rising fury over the findings of an official panel that mammograms were no longer necessary for women in their 40s and that older women should have fewer tests for breast cancer.US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius indicated ...
  1 week ago

• The Pink Glove Dance For Breast Cancer Awareness

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 611
  October may have been Breast Cancer Awareness Month , but the entire staff of the Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland Oregon are helping to raise plenty of attention for the issue with their Pink Glove Dance video.  The hospital’s employees donned bright pink gloves, filmed themselves dancing to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Catullus 85

  
  What Is Hip — Authority: 113
  In another forum, Hope reminds us of the timelessness of experience. Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. I hate and I love. Why does this happen, perhaps you ask? I know not, but I know that it happens and I am tortured. Catullus lived and loved and wrote in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• What do the new U.S. mammogram recommendations mean for us?

  
  Chatelaine — Authority: 145
  Yesterday, the United Services Preventive Services Task Force released new guidelines recommending that women start regular breast screening at 50, not 40. They also recommend that women between the ages of 50 and 74 have mammograms every second year as opposed to annually, and that doctors stop teaching their ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Mammogram Wars

  
  Yo Mama For Obama — Authority: 123
  The U. S. Preventive Services Task Force came out this week with new recommendations for women and mammography.  Their new guidelines call for mammograms to be initiated at age fifty (versus age forty), to be repeated every two years (versus every year) and state that breast self-examination is of dubious value.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Breast cancer backstep: The U.S. flips the script on mammograms

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 524
  50 the new recommended age for women to start getting biannual mammograms (too many false positives) no women shouldn’t self-examine their own boobs for cancer anymore, the strangely weakened new guidelines say SOURCE Related posts: Here’s what no more self-breast-exams is gonna cost us An ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gardiner Spring on “Christian Character” available again

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 464
  Gardiner Spring’s classic work on The Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character is one of the most careful and discerning short works on the marks of true Christianity.  Clearly standing in the tradition of Edwards’ Religious Affections and Alexander’s Thoughts on Religious Experience it remains an ...
  4 weeks ago

• Today’s Quote – Self-Examination (Alexander)

  
  Words of Grace — Authority: 130
  J. W. Alexander, Remember Him : The greatest care is necessary in an affair so important as the examination of your state before God.  You will naturally be reluctant to come to an unfavourable conclusion about this and so self-love combined with self-ignorance will expose you to the danger of self-deception.  ...
  4 weeks ago

• Wjla Breast Exam Video

  
  Deconlabel — Authority: 443
  Wjla Breast Exam VideoWjla Breast Exam Video, WJLA Washington says it will demonstrate breast self-examination without concealing any part of the body during a four-part series in 5 hours and 11 hours of news in the next two days (October 29 and 30).“Touch of Life: The Guide to Breast Self Examination” is in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Local News Starts Sweeps Month With Topless Breast Self-Exam [Breast Intentions]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 812
  ABCs Washington, D.C. affiliate WJLA aired a segment showing a partially nude woman giving herself a breast self-examination this week. Today on ABCs Good Morning America , two WJLA journalists denied that it was just a ratings stunt. Clip at left.
  4 weeks ago

• New Song Inspiration: Jason Gray’s “Fade With Our Voices”

  
  Small Town Pastor — Authority: 134
  Like last week’s inspiration, this is a new song that I just heard.  I think the music is good…but the message again, broke me.  So watch (the video is well done) but more importantly, listen to the words.  And tell me what you think.  Would this be a good song to learn at your church?  Why or why not?
  4 weeks ago

• “Cruise Control” Vs. “Race Car” Spirituality

  
  Small Town Pastor — Authority: 134
  Today I’ve been thinking about “cruise control” spirituality versus “race car” spirituality (Jerry Bridges coined the terms).  Most of us are on cruise control.  We’re not living in “disobedience.”  It’s just that we’re content to be “in the pack” and just keep up with everyone else so as ...
  5 weeks ago

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