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Should Older Adults be Screened for Cancer?
(Jason DeRusha: Flickr) Right about now, you might be thinking you’ve heard enough of cancer screening. From mammography to prostate cancer, cancer screening tests have been much debated this fall....
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Please, Don’t Call It Rationing
New Campaign Urges Doctors to Avoid Unnecessary Tests (Just Us 3: Flickr) To many patients, it may seem unbelievable that their doctors would recommend something that is completely unnecessary. But by...
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Mammograms: Strong Evidence That Every Two Years Is Best Option For Older Women
(Photo: U.S. Navy) A major new study has found that — in older women — mammograms done every two years were as effective as mammograms done annually and led to far fewer false positive results. The...
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Just Say No: Doctors’ Groups Define More Unnecessary Tests, Procedures
One new recommendation: Don’t automatically do a CT scan to check a child’s minor head injury. (13 of Clubs/Flickr) One of the rallying cries against fee-for-service medicine is this: since doctors...
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