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Considering Longer Chemotherapy
  

July 21, 2009 (New York Times) The newest prognosis for cancer may be longer chemotherapy. Doctors and pharmaceutical companies are moving toward treating cancer patients with drugs continuously, even when they may not urgently need them. That would be a departure from the common practice of stopping treatment when the cancer is under control and resuming it only if the cancer worsens.
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Weighing School Backpacks
  

July 20, 2009 (New York Times) Last year, my daughter’s school backpack got so heavy, she would sometimes just drag it behind her rather than hoist it onto her shoulders. Backpacks with wheels are too bulky for her locker, so next year I’m thinking about buying an extra set of textbooks to keep at home.
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Learning of Risk of Alzheimer’s Seems to Do No Harm
July 16, 2009 (New York Times) A genetic test that can find an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease does no psychological harm to people who take it, even if they test positive for a risky gene, a new study find
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Cancer and Supplements: What Vitamins, Herbs, and Botanicals Can (and Can't) Do
  

July 14, 2009 (HealthDay News) 5 reasons there aren't a lot of answers—and 4 things you can do until there are
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In Summertime, the Livin' Can Be Buggy
  

June 23, 2009 (HealthDay News) Physicians group offers advice on tick and mosquito bites. It's nearly summer, which means millions of Americans will be picnicking in grassy fields and camping in the woods.
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Protein In Urine May Lead to Test for Appendicitis
  

June 23, 2009 (Reuters) A protein in urine could be used as a simple way to diagnose appendicitis, the most common emergency in childhood, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Estimating the Return on Investment in Disease Management Programs Using a Pre-Post Analysis.

By Donald Fetterolf, MD, MBA etc. al. 2003

Employer-Based Disease Management Program in Cancer.
Review Article by Frederick C. Lee, Disease Management, 2004

Clinical and Cost Impact of Second-opinion Pathology: Review of Prostate Biopsies Prior to Radical Prostatectomy.
By Epstein, Jonathan I. M.D. et. al.; American Journal of SurgicalPathology, 1996

Improving Cancer Care in a Kentucky Managed Care Plan: A Case Study of Cancer Disease Management.
Article by Timothy D. Costich and Frederick C. Lee, Disease Management, 2003

Second Opinion May Prevent Misdiagnoses.
By Clinicians Group, LLC, 2000.

The Florida Blues' Experience in Improving Cancer Management.
By David L. Teitelman and Frederick C. Lee, Quality Oncology, Inc.,1999

Is Cancer Meant to Be Managed?
By Frederick C. Lee, Managed Care Cancer, 2001

Calculating Return on Investment.
By American Healthways, 1999

Defining the Patient-Physician Relationship for the 21st Century.
American Healthways, Johns Hopkins, 2003

A New Model for Enhancing Care While Reducing Costs.
Gap Gemini Ernst & Young, 2002

Study finds US paediatric medical errors kill 4500 children a year.
By Anne Harding, British Medical Journal, 2004

Medical Errors: Practicing Physicians and Public View.
By The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harward School of Public Health, 2002.

Preventing Death and Injury From Medical Errors Requires Dramatic, System-Wide Changes.
Institute of Medicine, 2002

HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study,
2003

Facts of Health Insurance Quality.
By National Coalition on Health Care, 2002

CEOs Agree To Pay For Cancer Screening, Trials.
By Alicia Ault, Reuters Health, 2003

Caring for patients in a malpractice crisis: physician satisfaction and quality of care.
By Mello MM, et. al. Health Affairs, 2004.