Miscellaneous - Last 90 Days

• Early Detection Test Parameter Highlights for Men and Women

  Bret Hanna | March 26, 2012 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  For women, new guidelines for Pap tests to detect cervical cancer are age dependent as opposed to the former gold standard of one test per year for women over the age of 21. Several groups had...

• Aspirin Good for More than the Heart

  Bret Hanna | April 01, 2012 2:21 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Daily aspirin therapy may lower the risk of heart attack and stroke, but two new studies suggest that such therapy may also reduce the risk of many cancers and prevent some tumors from spreading....

• The Cost Of Appendix Removal Ranges From $1.5K to $180K - How Can That Be?

  Bret Hanna | April 24, 2012 9:26 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Appendectomies are very common and straightforward procedures that are performed every day. Why, then, are there such discrepancies in how much patients pay for them? A California study found...

• Crescendo Builds Against H.R. 5

  Bret Hanna | March 14, 2012 10:44 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  House GOP tort reformers have been at it again with their recent push for a vote on H.R. 5, a bill mandating federal level caps on medical malpractice awards across the board of all 50 states....