The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now recommends mammograms every two years for women aged 50 to 74 rather than yearly from 40, and advises against teaching breast self-examination. A companion review found biennial screening delivers most of the benefit with half the false positives.
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Why is Canada Changing Its Flu Vaccine Policy?
Several Canadian provinces suspended seasonal flu shots for people under 65 after a study suggested those vaccinated against seasonal flu were twice as likely to catch swine flu. Quebec postponed shots until January to focus on H1N1; an international panel is reviewing the data.
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Primary care visits increase in quality - study
Analysing 46,250 primary care visits from 1997 to 2005, researchers found the average visit lengthened from 18 to 20.8 minutes and quality improved on several counselling, screening and medication measures. They attribute the extra time to an older, sicker patient population.
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Doctors and ERs Flooded with Patients
Worry over swine flu has packed doctors' offices and ERs, mostly with mild cases, making it hard to tell swine flu from seasonal flu. WebMD reports most providers give antivirals without testing. Warning signs listed for children include fast breathing, bluish skin and fever with a rash.
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Minnesota Boy Now Cancer Free
Daniel Hauser, the 13-year-old who fled Sleepy Eye, Minnesota with his mother to avoid treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma, finished his last round of radiation on November 6. A court took custody from his parents, and that order stands until Family Services files its report.
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Majority of H1N1 flu Vaccine Seekers Could not Get It
A Harvard School of Public Health poll of 1,073 adults found 70 percent of those who sought H1N1 vaccine did not get it, and 49 percent could not find a location offering it. Only about a third of parents and high-priority adults succeeded.
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Is Your Doctor's Continuing Ed Funded by Pharma?
The piece examines continuing medical education courses paid for by drug makers and taught by industry-funded specialists, citing a bipolar course led by a professor funded by more than a dozen pharma firms and an HPV vaccine module built around a Merck-coauthored Lancet paper.
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Uninsured children at greater risk for death
Reviewing 23 million hospital records from 37 states between 1998 and 2005, Johns Hopkins researchers found uninsured children were 60 percent more likely to die in hospital whatever their condition, a gap they link to nearly 17,000 deaths.
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What OTC Drug May Have Killed More People in 1918 Flu Pandemic than Flu Itself?
Mercola presents historical evidence that heavy aspirin dosing, widely recommended during the 1918-19 flu pandemic, may have contributed to deaths through toxicity that causes hemorrhage and fluid buildup in the lungs. He uses it to argue for caution with even over-the-counter drugs.
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Low-dose radiation can cause heart disease and stroke too
Imperial College London researchers built a mathematical model, published in PLoS Computational Biology, predicting that higher radiation doses raise cardiovascular risk, in line with studies of nuclear workers. If the mechanism holds, risks from medical and dental x-rays may be underestimated.
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Premium Changes in Medicare Part B and D
Because Social Security has no cost of living increase for 2010, most Medicare Part B premiums stay flat, but the quarter of beneficiaries on Medicaid, in higher income brackets or newly enrolled will pay more. Part D premiums rise from $28 to $30.
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Massachusetts School To Implement Breathalyzer Analysis
A Foxborough school district plan, pending an October 19 vote, would let officials give breathalyzer tests to students suspected of drinking during school hours. The ACLU objects, warning the threat could push students toward illicit drugs instead.
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Reducing Health Care Costs: The Safeway Model
Safeway CEO Steve Burd describes a wellness plan that discounts insurance for employees with a body mass index under 30 and pays year-end rebates for losing weight, quitting smoking, cutting cholesterol or lowering blood pressure. Safeway's health costs have stayed flat over five years.
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Girl Rejects Gardasil, Loses Path to Citizenship
Simone Davis, born in Britain in 1992 and raised in Florida by her grandmother, was denied a moral and religious waiver from the Gardasil requirement US immigration imposes on female applicants aged 11 to 26, blocking her path to citizenship and to college.
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Expanded Criteria Organs May Soon Make the Donor A-List
With 81,000 patients on the kidney waiting list against 16,000 transplants last year, surgeons increasingly accept organs outside the usual criteria, such as an older kidney for an older recipient. Such organs made up 11 percent of transplants last year, and the share is expected to rise.
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Many Health Workers Won't Take Swine Flu Vaccine
Surveys found fewer than half of nearly 400 public hospital workers who returned questionnaires meant to accept pre-pandemic H1N1 vaccination, and few of 85 focus group participants in British Columbia would take it. Side effects were the top reason for refusal, then doubts about efficacy.
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Sexual minorities more likely to seek mental health care
UCLA researchers analyzing 2,074 people in the California Quality of Life Survey found 48.5% of lesbian, gay and bisexual respondents had received mental health or substance abuse treatment in the past year, against 22.5% of heterosexuals.
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Many Veterans Need Mental Health Care
A UCSF study of VA records on nearly 300,000 troops back from Iraq and Afghanistan found more than 40 percent of those who visited the VA were treated for mental health disorders, with 62,000 diagnosed with depression and 50,432 with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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