The mission of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) (http://www.ewg.org/) is to use the power of public information to protect public health and the environment. Their research is designed to bring to light unsettling facts that we all have a right to know, but has been kept hidden from us. Its goals are to shame polluters [...]
I recently read about a woman on a breast cancer sight who was getting ready to publish a list of "things I would liked to have known about prior to my treatment." I think that a similar list could be valuable to men newly diagnosed and newly recurrent. I would like to publish two lists, [...]
Rudy Giuliani’s fake numbers on prostate cancer survival in the United States vs. Europe still have not been corrected by the candidate. He lied and he continues to lie about our health care system and the significance of a prostate cancer diagnosis for long term survival. First, his lie about the “cure rate” discrepancy serves [...]
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 [...]