Arts Mar 10 Leveraging the power of art to achieve ‘community immunity’ By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
Health Oct 07 Watch Panel’s Pitch to Nix Routine Prostate Cancer Tests Draws Strong Reaction The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said Friday that prostate specific antigen tests, known as PSAs, that are done to detect prostate cancer could be doing more harm than good. Jeffrey Brown discusses the latest controversial recommendation from the influential…
Health Aug 05 Watch Men over 75 Urged to Skip Prostate Cancer Screening Medical care for older men may change after a federal task force recommended Monday that men older than 75 not get screened for prostate cancer, the second-deadliest-type among males. A National Institutes of Health official presents the concerns behind the…
Health Jan 17 Watch Study Shows Drop in Cancer Deaths for Second Straight Year The American Cancer Society reported Wednesday that cancer deaths in the United States fell in 2004 for the second straight year due to better screening and fewer smokers. Dr. Harmon Eyre, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, explains…
Jul 24 PSA Tests Miss Over Half of All Prostate Cancers, Study Says The widely used screening test for prostate cancer did not detect most tumors, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Continue reading