Cancer
The Prostate Dilemma
Even the medical community can’t seem to agree about prostate screenings. In March, after a U.S. study suggested that screening for prostate cancer does not reduce death from the disease, a bigger European study suggested that screening can lower the death rate as much as 20 percent. (Both studies were reported in the New England [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )HPV Vaccinations the Surest Way to Fight Cervical Cancer
With all of the controversy over mandating vaccinations for the human papilloma virus (HPV) for female immigrants to the U.S. and sixth-grade girls throughout Texas, we shouldn’t lose sight of one key fact: This vaccination saves lives. Period.
As a family physician, I advocate both testing and vaccination for HPV in all of my female patients. [...]
How Doctors Should Think
Every business forecasts its performance predicated on past experience except medicine. Yet, health care could benefit from that approach because there is statistical probability for everything, including health. Most predictable is the fact that some day we all have to be dead. To be dead, there has to be a cause of death.
To predict [...]
