Preventive Services news and information

The decision last week by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommending annual lung cancer screenings for heavy smokers using low-dose computed tomography scans has reignited the controversy among physicians about the trade-off between benefits and risks for a number of cancer-screening...
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Providers who have been using low-dose CT scans to screen patients at high risk for lung cancer are a step closer to receiving Medicare and private insurance reimbursement for their services.
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Khlood Salman became a strong advocate for better healthcare for Muslims in the U.S. after finding out shortly after graduating from nursing school that three of her young Muslim friends had breast cancer.
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Veteran investigative journalist Kurt Eichenwald has an important and scathing commentary in the new issue of Vanity Fair on the issue of how new state restrictions in Texas and other states on centers providing abortion and other women's health services are likely to affect diagnosis and treatment...
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A growing number of experts fear the rising popularity of high-deductible insurance plans could backfire and undermine the accountable care movement.
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Visits to the doctor and pharmacy dropped among workers whose employer switched their health insurance to a high-deductible plan with a health savings account, a newly released Health Affairs study found.
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Recent findings from the Oregon Health Study have resulted in headlines intended as a warning for next January's planned expansion of the Medicaid program (as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act): “Bad news for Obamacare: A...
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Actress Angelina Jolie has focused public attention on breast cancer by announcing that because she carries a cancer-causing mutation, she has had a double mastectomy.
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Some hospitals have been using low-dose CT scans in recent years to screen patients at high risk for lung cancer even though most payers, including the CMS, still don't reimburse for the tests.
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The professional society representing urologists, which had earlier railed against tightening standards for the use of prostate-specific antigen tests, reversed course when it issued new guidelines related to the controversial screening.
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