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Showing Doctors How to Lower Healthcare Costs
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Has Mammography Created an Epidemic of Pseudo-Survivorship?
ByadminKaren Vogt’s breast cancer journey began like many others, with her breasts painfully squeezed into a mammography machine. At age 52, it was far from her first mammogram, but this scan would be the most consequential by far. It revealed microcalcifications, little areas of breast tissue speckled with deposits of calcium that her radiologist worried…
Finally! Starting to Study Food Waste
ByadminIn developed countries, upwards of 65% of food is wasted, meaning that somewhere from farm to table it ends up in the trash. Fortunately, researchers are finally beginning to study the problem:
More Young People Die in America than in Other Rich Countries (Two Pictures Explain Why)
ByadminShutterstock The average life expectancy of American men is almost four years less than men in Switzerland. In fact, among 17 high income countries, U.S. men ranked 17th in life expectancy. American women die young, too, with a life expectancy five years less than the average Japanese woman. Why is American life expectancy so poor? In part,…
Complaining Of Chronic Pain Doesn’t Make You A Complainer
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Better Off Not Knowing
Byadmin“Better Off Not Knowing” – Archives of Internal Medicine

