Mary, who writes the prostate cancer advocacy and action blog for malecare, (www.prostatecancerblog.org) wrote this comment to my post which does appear in the comments for that post. I thought that it was so thoughtful and insightful I would use it as its own post. Mary's blog is well worth checking out and may be [...]
The Bush administration has begun the traditional post election changes of regulations and executive orders that often accompany a change in administrations. On Friday, the president narrowed the scope of services for poor people who rely on Medicaid's outpatient benefits. The administration claimed the purpose of the order was to clarified the definition of outpatient [...]
A federal court blocked a recent move of the Bush administration to allow Medicare to only pay for the least expensive treatment available without regard to the medical issues. The administration saw instituting this limitation as a way to cut costs to the financially strapped Medicare Program. The court decided that congress sets the Medicare [...]
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be able to take the day off from work to be dad. I took the day because Dev's school was closed - one of the many holidays that public schools force us parents to make other arrangements for.?Anyway, I seized the opportunity and walked with my son to?our local [...]
Maybe things are poised to bring about some changes in funding for prostate cancer research. President Elect Obama’s administration does offer the potential of increasing funding for prostate cancer research. During the campaign, he made many statements about increasing healthcare. Obama’s maternal grandfather was a prostate cancer survivor and our new Vice-President Elect Biden’s son, [...]