Answers To Diseases

Health care reform is the headline-maker these days, and I give my take in a couple of recent articles.
First, Congressional Quarterly wonders if there are enough primary care doctors for every patient newly insured under a universal coverage plan (a familiar take, I must say). Anyways, here’s my contribution to the piece:

Recent data has suggested that we may be finding too many cases of prostate cancer.
This is important, since there are no studies suggesting that screening for early prostate cancer saves lives. In many cases, “most prostate tumors grow so slowly that had they not been screened, those men would have died of something else [...]