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Prostate Cancer Treatment and Detection

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:31:13 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: Patrick Walsh was recently on Charlie Rose PBS. There's more here about prostate cancer than you think you know.. Good Read..

Clip Source: www.pbs.org

DR. PATRICK WALSH

Dr. Patrick Walsh, director of the Jane Fucanon Brady Urological Institute at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, shares his thoughts on prostate cancer treatment and detection.

PATRICK WALSH: Well, there's a lot of speculation about it. We know that men that are Asian and grow up in Asia have a 2 percent lifetime risk for developing the disease. But when they move to the United States and live here for 25 years or more, their risk begins to approach that of Caucasian men in the United States. So it has something to do with environment, either things that we do wrong in the United States like possibly eat too much fat, or things that we don't do at all like not eating enough green tea and soy.

Tags: cancer, health, men

The Elephant In The Room

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:05:42 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: Good article on why our current system of financing health care is unsustainable.

Clip Source: www.kansas.com

DR. BILL ROY: U.S. REFUSES TO SEE INSURANCE ELEPHANT

More good people are spending more good effort and more good money trying to make our inequitable and tattered health care system sustainable than can be measured or imagined. And the "system" per se is getting into deeper and deeper trouble, because Americans refuse to see the elephant in the room -- the health insurance companies.

No country can long afford a health care system run by private health insurance companies. They take 15 to 30 percent for their fees (and add 15 percent to the administrative costs of physicians and hospitals); refuse to insure the sick, disabled, chronically ill and elderly; and generally distort the health care delivery system for their own profit.

Tags: healthcare, people, society

Most docotors support national health insurance

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:44:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Form Physicians for a National Health Program.

Clip Source: www.pnhp.org

Most doctors support national health insurance, new study shows

Reflecting a shift in thinking over the past five years among U.S. physicians, a new study shows a solid majority of doctors — 59 percent — now supports national health insurance.

Such plans typically involve a single, federally administered social insurance fund that that guarantees health care coverage for everyone, much like Medicare currently does for seniors. The plans typically eliminate or substantially reduce the role of private insurance companies in the health care financing system, but still allow patients to go the doctors of their choice.

Tags: healthcare, people, society