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Healthcare: The testing glut
In case you missed it, a recommendation came out last month that physicians cut back on using 45 common tests and treatments. In addition, patients were advised to question doctors who recommend such things as antibiotics for mild sinusitis, CT scans...
Tags: Colonoscopy, Medical Procedures and Tests, General Practitioners, Health, X-rays
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State senator pushes bill on breast cancer screening
PolitiCalState Sen. Joseph Simitian (D-Palo Alto) is resurrecting a bill to strengthen breast cancer screenings after it was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year. The legislation would require patients to be told if they have dense breast tissue, which...... -
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Research security standards before storing medical data with a business
I had an MRI recently and asked for a copy of the test. Instead of giving me a CD copy, they offered to put it online with a company that would allow me to access my images and share them with my doctors as needed. It seems like a good idea, but how do...Tags: HIV, Companies and Corporations, Medical Specialization, Private Health Care, Employers
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Medical report says airport scanners pose no significant health threat
Money & CompanyThe radiation doses emitted by the most common airport scanners are extremely small and pose no significant health risk, according to a new report by a doctor at UC San Francisco. Still, Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a doctor at the university's radiology...... -
May 6 buzz: How to stop healthcare costs from going up; the benefit of Superman going global
Opinion L.A.Most viewed and commented: Diagnosis as disease Are doctors overmedicating their patients, and subsequently raising healthcare costs? That's what H. Gilbert Welch contends. The practicing physician and professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute... -
Changing course mid career
Life often takes unexpected twists and turns, as it did for Jeff Henry, 29, of Huntington Beach. Henry always knew he wanted to be a teacher. He was a volunteer coach in a youth program and quickly realized teaching went hand in hand with coaching. With a...Tags: Lawyers, Companies and Corporations, Health and Medical Professionals, Emergency Planning, Medical Specialization
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Cut back on mammograms?
For years, breast cancer awareness campaigns have urged women over 40 to get a yearly mammogram. When women hesitate to comply, it's often to avoid the discomfort of having their breasts squeezed or the fear of getting called back for more tests, even...Tags: United Kingdom, Death, Symptoms, Science and Technology, Mammogram
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Technology expands breast cancer screening options
Special to the Los Angeles TimesBreast-cancer-screening isn't like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's harder. It's like looking for needles in a big field of haystacks, where some of the haystacks have needles, while most don't, but you don't know which are which, so you have to...Tags: Education, Science and Technology, Mammogram, Diseases and Illnesses, Gaming
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A Picture of Health: The Worried Well
Medical private practice in Los Angeles has some unique features. We Angelenos fear the occasional earthquake, drought and fire, along with the more frequent wrinkles, subcutaneous fat and less than perfect health. Since we can’t do much about the earth’s...Tags: Tumors, Medical Services, Obesity, Symptoms, Colon
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Overuse of CT scans will lead to new cancer deaths, a study shows
Widespread overuse of CT scans and variations in radiation doses caused by different machines -- operated by technicians following an array of procedures -- are subjecting patients to high radiation doses that will ultimately lead to tens of thousands...Tags: Tumors, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Death, Science and Technology, New York University
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'My Father's Bonus March' by Adam Langer
My Father's
Bonus March
Adam Langer
Spiegel & Grau: 244 pp., $26
In June 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, a ragtag collection of World War I veterans converged on Washington, D.C., to demand money the government had promised them. About...Tags: Judaism, Documentary (genre), Armed Forces, Defense, Norman Podhoretz
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