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Analysis: Obama sends Romney a message: The game is on even if you aren’t ready WASHINGTON (AP) — Reality smacked Mitt Romney in the face twice in a 24-hour span. President Barack Obama used the power of the presidency to ring the general...
Tags: Republican Party, Symptoms, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health, Southern U.S. Storms (2011)
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Unnecessary medicine: Physician groups list 45 overused tests, procedures
Should you get a cardiac stress test as part of your annual checkup? A chest X-ray before outpatient surgery? A CT scan or antibiotics for chronic sinusitis? In most cases, no. But patients get these commonly used tests and procedures — and many...
Tags: Symptoms, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health, Kidney, Prostate Cancer
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The Medical Emporium: Health Insurers Pushing Patients To Shop By Price
The Hartford CourantEmployees of the city of Manchester, N.H., can receive up to $150 if they choose low-cost medical providers for colonoscopies, CT scans and other procedures. It's a pilot program offered by one of WellPoint's Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans for the...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Health, Insurance, Employment, Cigna Corporation
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Pennsylvania: High in the use of discretionary sedation during endoscopies, colonoscopies
HealthA study to be published tomorrow in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports on the increase in sedation for low risk patients, which varies notably by region.... -
Learning to fight back against the cancer nobody talked about
HealthMarch is National Colon Cancer Awareness Month. And while I normally don’t feel compelled to write about an awareness campaign linked to a specific day, week or month, this one is near and dear to my heart ... and my colon. I do feel it’s... -
Colon Cancer Screenings Save Lives
TribLocal - EvanstonBy Susan J. WhiteNorthShore University HealthSystem According to American Cancer Society estimates, approximately 141,200 people in the United States will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer …... -
Conservative vs. Liberal: Healthcare
Opinion L.A.On Sunday, Charlotte Allen, who describes herself as a conservative somewhere to the right of Pedro the Cruel, and Diana Wagman, a pacifist, vegetarian, Prius-driving, NPR-listening liberal, explained in separate Opinion articles why they have trouble... -
Fighting with a vampire
Monsters are real. All of those that were dreaded when we were children do exist.
I want to share with you, my readers, a story about a real live monster. This monster is a vampire. Vampires are really cool in this 21st century. They are very popular...Tags: Vampires (supernatural entitiess), Health, Cancer
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Screening for cancer missing the mark
The percentage of Americans screened for cancer isn't meeting national targets, and the numbers are even worse for minorities, according the first federal study looking at disparities among Asiand and Hispanic groups.
The report by the Centers for...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health, Health Insurance Cost, Medical Research
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A Different Angle: Here's to having a great new year
Contributing ColumnistWe’re in a brand new year and it has started out OK. It was the last few days of 2011 that weren’t so great. I had a very good Christmas but right after, not only did I have to prepare for a colonoscopy but also my computer died. But in trying...Tags: Frank Sinatra, WD-40 Company
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Strange place to get an update on Darnell Braswell
Groller's CornerGroller's Corner readers know I try to share almost everything on this blog -- the good, the bad, the ugly and everything in between. Well, today I will share with you that I had my first colonoscopy this morning at Lehigh Valley Hospital on Cedar Crest... -
Sharing friendship, sharing loss
In starless, predawn darkness, I was driving on the Beltway last January, and I was stinking. I'd woken to find my Dickeyville home had no hot water — and no option but to take my friend Carolyn to her appointment, as I'd promised, without...Tags: Lexington Market, Health, Human Interest, Carroll County (Maryland), Health and Medical Professionals
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