Word: blooded
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Science is not shy about ambiguity, never more so than when it comes to medical advice. So here's the latest recommendation on prostate-cancer screening: Men should continue to have both a manual prostate exam and a blood test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) every year - bearing in mind that neither test may affect your odds of surviving prostate cancer. (Read "Can a Urine Test Detect Deadly Prostate Cancer...
...Just as important, science is working to develop tests that are more precise than the fallible feel method or even the PSA reading. Ideally, once a blood test reveals elevated antigens, it could also spot particular markers for cancers that are aggressive enough to be deadly and distinguish them from markers for cancers that are tamer...
...their prim American counterparts, with their fussy scruples, the way Sudanese warlords laugh at American gangsta rappers. "Violence?" they seem to say. "War? What do you know about it, mon semblable, mon frère? You've been a country for 200 years. We've got 30 centuries of blood in our soil...
...Although young black adults in the study were more likely than whites to have risk factors for heart disease - on average, the baseline blood pressure of blacks who went on to develop heart disease was 10 mm higher than that of whites - Bibbins-Domingo and her co-investigators also showed that this population did not get appropriate medical treatment for their conditions, if any at all. At the beginning of the study, 75% of black participants with hypertension were not taking medication for their condition; 10 years later, 57% still remained untreated. (The study did not provide a corresponding figure...
...number of individuals with controlled blood pressure is embarrassingly low," says Yancy. "That indicates a problem not only of understanding the biology of blood pressure, and why it occurs more frequently in young African Americans, but also why we aren't intervening more aggressively and effectively to treat it. Does it represent some form of bias? Of stereotyping? Or lack of access to care...