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Experts: Benefits of cancer screenings overinflated
In Reader’s Digest, Shannon Brownlee reports that while the American Cancer Society and federal government still push regular cancer screenings,…
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Story documents end of life for woman and family
In “The Final Journey” in Cure magazine, contributing photographer Beatriz Terrazas and Cure editor-at-large Kathy LaTour document the final six…
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Dental credit cards raise questions, debt
Capital Public Radio’s Kelley Weiss reports that more patients are using “Dental credit cards,” lines of credit that carry high…
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Denver’s ambulance system said to be ‘broken’
Tom Burke Arthur Kane and Tony Kovaleski of KMGH-Denver, used the example of the 33 minutes it took for ambulances…
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Faculty concerned about San Diego ‘cancer cluster’
In the last 16 years, three people on the San Diego State University campus succumbed to a rare form of…
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Mentally ill patients, elderly mix in nursing homes
Carla K. Johnson of The Associated Press reports that “nursing homes have become dumping grounds for young and middle-age people…
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L.A. doctors go to barber shops to reach black men
Los Angeles Times reporter Mary Engel follows the Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program founded by Dr. Bill Releford in December…
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Economy down, gnashing of teeth up (literally)
Gabriella Boston of The Washington Times finds that dentists across the country have reported an increase in patients grinding their…
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Obama fought internal opposition to Health Policy
Jonathan Cohn at The New Republic writes about how health care reform nearly got pushed aside in President Obama’s budget…
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Native American death rates top all groups
Death rates among native Americans are high and climbing for men, women and infants, Vanessa Ho reported in the Seattle…