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Iowa is experiencing a spike in HIV cases. In response, Polk County health officials are holding a free testing day in conjunction with National HIV Testing Day.
So this is what an HIV test looks like? Seems quite simple, perhaps it’s something people could do themselves at home?
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Daily News sponsors free prostate tests throughout the five boros and more. Dan Wells, 68, gets his prostate test/blood drawn by Anthony Ola at St. Vincent.
The Daily News on Monday begins its ninth year of free prostate screenings at 37 hospitals, medical facilities, recreation centers, churches and office locations across the metro New York area.
Our medical forum has debated the value of the PSA test, but the intention of this program is to get men interested in their own health, and that’s good.
So, Dr. James Cardelli, and his colleagues at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, carried out a clinical trial to determine the effects of short-term supplementation with increased amounts of the active compounds in green tea on the progression of prostate cancer.
Article describes a small study using larger amounts of the active ingredients of green tea, another very ancient remedy which may be useful now.
Everyone recognizes that preventing disease is important for their future health and well-being. Several recent studies have identified the usefulness of aspirin in preventing some of the most serious illnesses we face.
What do our doctors think about the aspirin a day rule? Good advice or bad? This article seems to endorse the practice.
(John Kuntz/The Plain Dealer MetroHealth Medical Center family practitioner Rita Beckford talks with patient Vanessa Greer Jones of Maple Heights during a checkup at a MetroHealth center in the Lee-Harvard Plaza in 2003. National organizations predict a severe shortage of primary-care physicians like Beckford in coming years.
WASHINGTON -- As the debate on overhauling the nation's health-care system exploded into partisan squabbling, virtually everyone still agreed on one point: There are not enough primary-care doctors to meet current needs, and providing health insurance to 46 million more people would threaten to overwhelm the system.
Finally the real issue: what are you going to do with 46 million additional patients? Start a paper chart for each person? Help from computers, perhaps?
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>>> What do our doctors think about the aspirin a day rule? Good advice or bad? This article seems to endorse the practice.
Aspirin should only be taken post-MI or post-TIA/stroke, as it has never been proven to be of any significant benefit in other situations and can lead to GI bleeds and renal failure.
>>> Finally the real issue: what are you going to do with 46 million additional patients? Start a paper chart for each person? Help from computers, perhaps?
Robert-
You got it right- "Help from computers".
What those that are advocating for universal healthcare want is to have nurse practictioners and physician assistants take over much of the role of the primary care physician, hence the need for intelligent c-EHR systems that will prevent errors from those with much much less training! These providers will be able to compete against physicians, hopefully lowering the cost of care. (At least that is what the Wash DC pinheads feel could happen.)
Al
Al Borges, M.D.