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People in state high-risk insurance plans often feel left behind
The federal health law set up new plans that are cheaper and more comprehensive than the older ones run by states but consumers need to go without insurance for six months to qualify.
Breast Cancer
Komen reverses Planned Parenthood decision, apologizes
Facing a storm of criticism form women’s groups and abortion-rights supporters, the Susan G. Komen for a Cure foundation announced it would reverse its decision to cut its funding to Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood vs. Komen: Women’s health giants face off
The breast-cancer charity Susan G. Komen For the Cure is pulling about $700,000 in breast cancer screening and service grants from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.Komen’s reason: a new policy forbidding grants to organizations under official investigation. Planned Parenthood is the subject of an inquiry launched by a GOP congressman.
New cancer drugs offer hope — but at an often staggering cost
Julie Grabow, an oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, recently prescribed an exciting new therapy for a 60-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer — Afinitor made by Novartis. There was a catch, though. Novartis is charging $10,000 per month for the drug
How doctors die, Newt’s health care heresies and other top stories of the week
How doctors die (Hint: Not like the rest of us). Can vaccines end cancer? Newt Gingrich’s health-care heresies. Should your doctor take money from drug companies? — This week’s top stories.
Patients harmed when providers fail to report test results
In a given week, a primary-care doctor might need to review 360 chemistry test results, 460 hematology results, 12 pathology reports and 40 radiology reports.
Why does being overweight increase your risk of cancer?
Research suggests that 14 percent of all cancer deaths in men and 20 percent in women could be blamed on excess weight.
FDA pulls approval of Avastin for breast cancer
After more than a year of deliberations, the FDA has revoked approval of the biotech blockbuster Avastin, a medicine that chokes off the blood supply to various cancer cells, as a treatment for metastatic breast cancer.
Weekend Reading: Health and Medicine Online
Did conservatives invent the idea of a individual mandate that they now claim to abhor? Will Mississippi ban IVF? Do mammograms really save many lives?
Webwatch: Best of the Web on health
Komen for the Cure and possible link between breast cancer and BPA. Steering ER regulars to primary care. And health reform will bring a surge in Medicaid patients–which states ready?
Local pizzerias join ‘Slice of Hope’ breast cancer campaign
Tutta Bella Neopolitan Pizzerias will join with three other Washington State pizzerias to raise money for the Seattle-based Karen Mullen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Regular mammograms prolong life in breast cancer survivors
Mammography done yearly or every two years to detect new or recurrent tumors after surgery appears to prolong the lives of breast cancer survivors, according to a large new evidence review.
Webwatch: Best of the week’s articles on health online
Breast cancer has become a big business. Healthcare and the poor in Texas. A place of the autistic in the adult world. Taming the Medicare ‘monster.’ Living longer, but better?
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