Hospitals are promoting the scans without warning patients of the potential downsides of the test, critics say.
Heart Check America has come under fire from patients, regulators and medical experts. In scores of consumer complaints, Heart Check America clients have accused the company of using pressure sales tactics inappropriate for a health-care company.
Colon cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death, but death rates have been falling since the mid-80s, in large part due to increased screening. What’s involved?
Screening tests that diagnose illnesses early may actually cause more harm than good, a team of Dartmouth medical researchers argue in a new book. Michelle Andrews interview the authors.
When they don’t have to pay a health insurance deductible, people are more likely to get screened for conditions like cancer and high cholesterol–but the increase is modest.
If everyone takes advantage of all of the prevention care guaranteed by health reform, we’ll need every family doctor in the U.S. working full-time on the task—leaving no time left over for any other services
As many as 50,000 to 100,000 deaths in people under age 80 could be prevented each year if just nine simple of preventive services were implemented effectively.
An analysis of lung cancer screening results in 3,200 people finds that 21% to 33% of the suspicious nodules found by CT scans are not really cancer.
The YWCA Women’s Health Outreach Program and South Seattle Community College will conduct a mobile mammography screening Tuesday, Feb. 23rd, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at SSCC, 6000 16th Ave. SW, in West Seattle. The Washington Breast and Cervical Health Program provides no-cost pap tests, clinical breast exams and mammograms to income-eligible women over [...]
The decision to be screened should be a shared decision between the individual patient and her physician.
People don’t always want to do what the data say to do.
By Phil Galewitz – Kaiser Health News August 4, 2009 If there is one thing that both parties can agree on in the health overhaul debate, it’s the need to build a health system that promotes prevention rather than just manages disease. To do that, legislation being debated in Congress requires Medicare and private health [...]
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
Laws in more than half the states permit insurers to deny payment for medical services related to alcohol or drug use. Faced with the prospect of not getting paid for care, some ER personnel sidestep the problem by simply not testing patients’ blood or urine for alcohol.
Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
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