The big (and potentially
befuddling) medical news of the day, courtesy of a prominent
article in The New York Times, in turn based on an article
in the current issue of JAMA is this: Just because we can
screen for breast and prostate cancer, doesn't mean we should.
As a… Read More »
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A study just published in the
Lancet reaffirms what we had cause to know already: obesity is not
just a clear and present danger, but a potentially lethal one. The
new paper, which is predictably attracting its share of media
attention, pools data from 57 prior studies and is thus able to
report the… Read More »
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