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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...
...question for any man with a positive PSA test or manual exam is, Which group does he belong to? The NCI admits that screening tests alone cannot determine which tumors are deadly, and researchers won't know until they follow the study's entire sample group to see how all the men fare well beyond the seven- or 10-year point - which is their plan. Perhaps some whose cancer was not a problem at the decade mark will be claimed by the disease five or 10 years later. "We need longer follow-ups to determine if more screening will translate...
...Finally the repair manual will cost...
...wanted to make a list of important books you should read, what would you choose? Anna Karenina, maybe? The Bible? How about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...
...good document, [but] we may have to use a 2-by-4 on a couple of folks." - On resistance to the newly unveiled "National Response Plan," the government's 426-page manual introduced after Hurricane Katrina...