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PSA Testing: Will Science Finally Trump Politics?
Kenneth Lin First published 2/28/11 on Common Sense MD Maybe the third time will finally be the charm. In early November 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force voted unanimously to update its...
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It’s Time To Stop This [PSA] Screening Nonsense
Kenneth Lin First published 6/21/11 on Common Sense MD In an editorial in this month’s issue of the Journal of Family Practice, Northeast Ohio Medical University dean and family physician Jeff Susman,...
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Spare the Knife. Keep the Rod.
Who will tell the men? That’s what I wondered last week when I read the abstract about prostate cancer patients’ grim prognosis for normal sexual activity after surgery or radiation for their disease....
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The Meeting That Wasn’t, Revisited
Kenneth Lin First posted 10/05/11 on Common Sense Family Doctor A New York Times Magazine story published on the newspaper’s website this morning details the complicated history of screening for...
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Prostate Cancer Screening – Is Science Winning?
Joe Paduda First posted 10/07/11 on Managed Care Matters Brian’s Note: Readers interested in this topic will also want to see “Can Cancer Ever Be Ignored” by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer,...
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Memo to USPSTF: Hire a PR Pro
Merrill Goozner Posted 10/18/11 on GoozNews Last Friday at 3 p.m., the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality held a telephone briefing to inform the press and public about the U.S. Preventive...
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