On The New Year, Broken Hearts Give Impetus For Exercise
The question for the new year is not if there’s reason to exercise, or to modify your habits, but if you want to do so.
writer, health care advocate, physician
The question for the new year is not if there’s reason to exercise, or to modify your habits, but if you want to do so.
In the 1980s, doctors linked H. pylori infection to stomach cancer. In infected adults, a brief course of antibiotics lessens cancer risk.
“We want a safer and healthier community,” Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine said. “Whether it’s reducing pre-cancer or sunburns, it’s a way of helping our tourists and our residents.”
By telling her story, she helps break the mystery and stigma that deter honest and needed discussion about cancer-causing, inherited genetic mutations.
Getting checked, one way or another, has even been deemed cost-effective. The question for colorectal cancer, if you choose to be screened, is how: what’s the best method?
The IBIS-1 trial shows a dramatic, reductive effect of tamoxifen in preventing breast tumors.
With many difficult situations, the first step in solving a problem is in acknowledging it exists.
It’s precisely because there are effective treatments for early-stage disease that it’s worth finding breast cancer early.
But what’s also true, in a practical and bottom-line sort of way, is that a good physical exam can help doctors figure out what’s wrong with patients. If physicians were more confident – better trained, and practiced – in their capacity to make…