Dr. Pathak and associates from Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles published an article in the June 2007 issue of the Journal of Urology, basing the frequency of LHRH agonist serum on testosterone levels instead of a fixed cookie cutter schedule currently used by most physicans. Patients usually receive a depot injection of an LHRH agonist based [...]
I was reading a post on a listserv recently where the question was asked, “What would happen if a patient were unable to pay their hospital bill?” Someone responded that they should not worry as hospital debts were different then other types of debts and would not affect their credit rating! This cannot be father [...]
My son and his mother go to the neighborhood library a few times a week. It's his opportunity to pick out the books that he wants to read. Since we don't have cable, he may also borrow a Blues Clues or Dora DVD. What I've noticed is that he mostly checks out books that are [...]
Congressman Edolphus (Ed) Towns (D), 10th District, New York, has proposed a very important piece of legislation for men with prostate cancer. The legislation, H.R. 1903, the “Post-Prostate Cancer Treatment Act of 2007”, will allow some 6,000 men each year to pay for penile implants under their private insurance plans as they seek a reconstructive [...]
from the Wash. Post 11-4-07 AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION Off Target in the War on Cancer By Devra Davis Sunday, November 4, 2007; Page B01 We've been fighting the war on cancer for almost four decades now, since President Richard M. Nixon officially launched it in 1971. It's time to admit that our efforts have [...]