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“How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously,” The Atlantic, Oct. 15, 2015. When my wife was struck by mysterious, debilitating symptoms, our trip to the ER revealed the sexism inherent in emergency treatment. “Female pain might be perceived as constructed or exaggerated”: We saw this from the moment we entered the hospital, as the staff . . . → Read More: How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously
“Why Doctors Are Rethinking Breast-Cancer Treatment,” by Siobhan O’Connor, Time. “What if I decide to just do nothing?” It was kind of a taunt, Desiree Basila admits. Not the sort of thing that usually comes out of the mouth of a woman who’s just been diagnosed with breast cancer. For 20 minutes she’d been grilling . . . → Read More: Why Doctors Are Rethinking Breast-Cancer Treatment 
“Just because your mammogram is normal doesn’t mean you don’t have breast cancer.” — A new documentary by Julie Marron questions the mammogram-as-panacea hype that pervades the media and the majority of breast cancer awareness campaigns. For more information: www.happygramthemovie.com Next Film Screening September 27, 2015 at . . . → Read More: Happygram Documentary Trailer
“Study Suggests Some Treatment For Early Breast Cancer Is Unnecessary,” by Rob Stein, NPR. Nearly 70,000 women are diagnosed with DCIS each year. DCIS is an overgrowth of cells within the lining of the milk ducts. Such growths are not dangerous unless they break through and invade other breast tissue and ultimately spread to lymph . . . → Read More: Study Suggests Some Treatment For Early Breast Cancer Is Unnecessary
“This is why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study,” by Julia Belluz, Vox. In 2003, researchers writing in the American Journal of Medicine discovered something that should change how you think about medical news. They looked at 101 studies published in top scientific journals between 1979 and 1983 that claimed a new therapy . . . → Read More: This is why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study
“Effective Ovarian Cancer Treatment Is Underused, Study Finds,” by Denise Grady, The New York Times. In 2006, the National Cancer Institute took the rare step of issuing a “clinical announcement,” a special alert it holds in reserve for advances so important that they should change medical practice. In this case, the . . . → Read More: Effective Ovarian Cancer Treatment Is Underused, Study Finds
In May 2015, the “21st Century Cures Act” was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives with the goal of promoting the development and speeding the approval of new drugs and devices. Championed by the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and device industries, some of its provisions could have a significant impact on clinical trial design, what is . . . → Read More: The 21st Century Cures Act
“Families provided $470 billion in unpaid care to loved ones in 2013,” by Lisa Rapaport, Reuters. Family caregivers in the U.S. provided an estimated $470 billion in unpaid medical support and other services to their loved ones in 2013, up from $450 billion five years earlier, according to a recent report from AARP. Those . . . → Read More: Families provided $470 billion in unpaid care to loved ones in 2013
“The full story on breast cancer screening. But do you want to listen?,” by Kenneth Lin, MD, MedPage Today’s KevinMD.com. The Men Against Breast Cancer Fund and several cancer advocacy and physician organizations have posted a petition on Change.org asking Congress to place a two-year moratorium on finalizing the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s draft . . . → Read More: The full story on breast cancer screening. But do you want to listen?
“Drug Prices Soar, Prompting Calls for Justification,” by Andrew Pollack, The New York Times. Prices for cancer drugs, some of which extend lives by only a couple of months, routinely exceed $100,000 a year, and some new ones exceed $150,000. And it is not unusual for the list prices of existing drugs to rise 10 . . . → Read More: Drug Prices Soar, Prompting Calls for Justification |
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