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Cancer Panel: Chemicals 'Grossly Underestimated' as Carcinogens
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyJust as we're once again treated to the sight of volunteers scrubbing oil off wildfowl (ah, memories), along comes the President's Cancer Panel report that says we're being polluted to death. ...
Diet, Exercise Touted in Fight Against Breast Cancer
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(March 25) -- Lifestyle changes, rather than better screening, are going to be the key to curbing breast cancer rates, a panel of experts told a conference in Barcelona, Spain, today. "What can be achieved with screening has been achieved. We can't do much more," Carlo La Vecchia, head of epidemiology at the University of Milan, told The Associated Press. In fact, the panel concluded, one-third of breast cancer cases in Western countries could be prevented if women ate more nutritiously and got more exercise. Discussing lifestyle factors as causative elements in breast cancer diagnosis ...
Group Urges Cautious Approach to Prostate Screening
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(March 5) -- Men worried about their risk of developing prostate cancer should not automatically have prostate screening tests after they turn 50 and should instead make a personal decision based on their own risk factors, according to new guidelines from the American Cancer Society. The society decided to revise its recommendations after several studies concluded that the two methods used to detect prostate cancer -- a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test and a digital rectal screening -- can be inaccurate and might even cause more trouble than they prevent. The organization now ...
Critics Blast Advice About Mammograms
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- Reactions to new government guidelines for breast cancer screenings have been visceral and immediate, and have sparked instant disagreement among doctors. Those objecting to the shift scoff at the composition of the government-appointed panel and the fact that it only re-examined old data and never touched or questioned a living patient before making its decision. "The work of this committee is reminiscent of a bad 1956 science-fiction movie," said Dr. Michael Harbut, director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Michigan's Karmanos Cancer Institute. ...
Obama Hails AARP, AMA Support for House Health Bill 2 Days Before Vote
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyTalk about interesting contrasts. As Rep. Michele Bachmann's "freedom-loving Americans" swarmed Capitol Hill to wield verbal pitchforks against health reform, the House bill slated for a vote Saturday evening picked up support from organizations whose members will be deeply affected by it. President Obama hailed the news as a sign of growing momentum for reform. Seniors have been among the most worried about what exactly Congress has in mind for them and for Medicare. But AARP, the leading advocacy group for people over 50, on Thursday endorsed the House bill. The nonpartisan group's CEO, ...
ACORN's Bureaucratic Ballet: The Coda
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyPerhaps some service organizations are meant to die natural -- or even self-inflicted -- deaths.The artist Marcel Duchamp put it this way: "After 40 or 50 years a picture dies, because its freshness disappears. . . . There's a huge difference between a Monet today, which is black as anything, and a Monet 60 or 80 years ago, when it was brilliant, when it was made. . . . Men are mortal; pictures too." I assume that when ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) got started some 40 years ago, it was with the best of intentions. However, recent news suggests the organization ...
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