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He does not have moderators or police the site. But he follows up on complaints about individual posts. "If it says your name, we'll take it off," he says.
A decade ago, doctors saw breast cancer as a monolithic disease that always progressed the same way, beginning with a single mutant cell that continued to divide and spread to the rest of the body. At the time, screening all women made sense, especially since annual mammograms had reduced deaths...
It's impossible to say how frequently such "overdiagnosis" occurs, according to the task force, but the data did conclusively show that in order to save the life of one woman in her 40s from breast cancer, 1,904 women would have to be screened every year for up to...
Both bills in Congress would set up new institutes to organize and fund more comparative-effectiveness research, ostensibly to help guide health care policy. (The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has already authorized $1.1 billion for the field.) And yet as Diana Buist, a researcher at...
There's no handbook for how to abdicate, but Oprah Winfrey offered up a pretty good model for monarchs who don't wish to go quietly. Employing her house blend of sentimentality, determination, pride and genuine emotion, the queen of all media announced that the 25th season of The Oprah...