Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times asked, “How Much Medical Testing is Too Much?” The article points out that middle-aged people in the U.S. are “bombarded with an overwhelming number of recommendations for screenings, tests and to-be-on-the-safe-side preventive measures.” And, often these tests are a matter of routine, and suggested by the physician as a traditional course of [...]
Read MoreThere’s cancer prevention in numbers, so say feisty organizers of The World’s Largest Colonoscopy Party set for March 31 and April 1 in Minneapolis, Minn. An all-inclusive price of $198 buys participants attendance at a “pre-poop party” on Thursday night, food and overnight accommodations, then transportation to the colonoscopy the next morning, topped off with [...]
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