Women may need to double-up on their consultations with their specialists about treatment for serious gynecological concerns, as new studies have raised troubling questions about a much-touted minimally invasive surgery for early-stage cervical cancer. These concerns, in a more perfect world, also would prompt greater questioning and oversight by doctors, hospitals, regulators, and lawmakers of….
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Gun violence takes terrible toll on kids too
As the nation struggles with grief from the latest mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, new research shows how grievous the mayhem that guns cause for the young, with weapons injuries over nine years sending 75,000 children and teen-agers to emergency rooms at a cost of almost $3 billion. The Associated Press reported that researchers….
Continue ReadingTuesday’s a crucial health care day, and health coverage deadlines loom
Take some time this week to do something big for yourself, your loved ones, friends, work colleagues, and our country, for that matter: Exercise your privilege, right, and duty as a citizen: Please vote. You may wish to look now at your health insurance coverage, please, being mindful of onrushing deadlines especially if you may….
Continue ReadingWith boasts about foodstuffs’ health benefits, a grain of salt is needed, too
Foolishness about food and its health effects can run not only into the negative — the sky will fall if you even nibble on meat, butter, or eggs! — but also into extremes about its purported benefits. Which is why, as recent news reports indicate, skepticism and care need to be exercised about probiotics, so-called….
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