Mammograms, the controversy continues
From last week’s New York Times An expert in breast cancer. Dr. Marisa Weiss, was diagnosed with breast cancer herself. This, is one of many...
Radiation Risk and Coronary CT Scans
During the presentation by Dr. Rita Redberg on Coronary Artery Disease during the “Controversies in Women’s Health Conference” last week, she discussed the use of...
Some sanity, at last, on Statins
I just attended the annual UCSF conference on Controversies in Women’s Health. This conference is well done, in that it alerts practitioners to issues that...
Big Money in Stents
Doctor Faces Suits Over Cardiac Stents By GARDINER HARRIS This is an article about a busy cardiologist in Baltimore, who had inserted more than 30...
Drugs causing the problems they’re supposed to prevent
From the NYTimes: “In the past month, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded that in some cases two types of drugs that were supposed...
Ongoing Controversies in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
I covered some of the controversies over prostate cancer screening in previous posts. Prostate cancer is a condition that should get a bit more scrutiny...
Benefits of Mammograms after 50 less than previously thought
I will simply link to the local news story that covered the article published in the New England Journal of Medicine concerning the benefits of...
PSA test unreliable and “unusable”
In a follow up on a previous post (http://ksparrowmd.blogspot.com/2009/03/prostate-screening-test-psa-may-not.html) there is now another study, this time from the British Medical Journal, showing that PSA testing...