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...movie, screened for TIME, is double-barreled Moore, a mix of familiar numbers (47 million uninsured Americans, the ever rising cost of care) and chilling moments (the 18-month-old baby who dies of a seizure when she?s denied emergency-room access, the husband and father with kidney cancer whose insurer won?t pay for a bone-marrow transplant). Together, they will have many moviegoers angry enough to gouge holes in their armrests...
...BREAST CANCER 4% Drop, between 2000 and 2005, in the percentage of U.S. women age 40 and older who reported having a mammogram in the previous two years. In a 2000 survey, 70% of women had had one; five years later, only 66% had 28% Increase in breast-cancer-research spending by the National Cancer Institute over the same five years, topping $560 million...
...BREAST CANCER...
...Search term data does reveal that awareness months actually work. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. During that month, searches for a disease, whose outcome can be dependent on early detection, increase over 300% from the previous month. If awareness months are driving searches for information on breast cancer, it's entirely possible that these marketing events are saving lives through early detection...
...Pharma are studying therapeutic vaccines to treat those already infected with the virus. "We need to come up with better vaccines - and we need to study them in men," says Haddad. Gardasil has not been tested against oral HPV, but Dr. Douglas Lowy, laboratory chief at the National Cancer Institute, says that there is every reason to think that, in principle, "the vaccine should be able to have an impact on oral cancers attributable to HPV." Lowy says that the next studies might start with a look at the rate of acquisition of oral HPV in those who are vaccinated...