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Sometimes there is confusion about preventive health exams versus preventive care in general. Things like mammograms, pap smears, PSA testing, those are considered preventive care procedures - and there's a clear evidence base that these are very important for patients to receive. What we're talking about [in our] study is the special visit for [general] preventive care. Physicians say, "The preventive exam is the only time I can really devote to focusing on preventive care." But we found that 80% of preventive services are provided at other types of visits. The vast majority of patients who come...
...love you, papà," the son said in tears. "I love you papà." It would have been a touching farewell, if not for the fact that 32-year-old Sandro Lo Piccolo is a convicted murderer - and the dad he was being torn away from is the most wanted boss in the ever-powerful Sicilian Mafia. Top boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo and his son were captured together Monday morning in a small hamlet outside of Palermo in Sicily, a bust immediately hailed as a major victory for the Italian state in its ongoing battle against organized crime. Lo Piccolo...
...have long watched these two enigmatic Red Sox stars with the rapt attention one might pay to a car accident—as much as you want to avert your eyes from the fiery wreckage of yet another Ramirez base-running blunder or J-pap victory dance, you are physically unable to. But over the course of the Red Sox’s championship run, it dawned on us that while the media might lampoon—sometimes affectionately, sometimes not—Manny’s space-cadet qualities or Papelbon’s meat-headed antics and deranged...
...finished. Our survey last spring found that while 71 percent of Harvard women would happily talk with their friends about HPV and the vaccine, only 38 percent of females had talked with a female physician about it. 37 percent of women surveyed had never had a pap test. In fact, 26 percent of these women did not know where to go if they wanted to get one at Harvard. Pap tests help detect abnormalities early when they’re the most treatable and when they’re the least lethal. Combine the high rate of HPV among women...
...least some of the numbers above. But given that 64 percent of respondents claimed that they were sexually experienced, the number of people who get tested for STDs is shockingly low. And if you do go to the doctor and get tested it is important to remember that a pap test is separate from a STD test...