“GOP lawmaker warns of dangers in health overhaul - The Guardian” plus 4 more |
- GOP lawmaker warns of dangers in health overhaul - The Guardian
- 'Chemobrain' Makes Life Harder After Cancer - 6 News WRTV
- Free mammograms offered to low-income women - Coloradoan
- Cancer Patient Turns to Racing for Healing - ABC News 4 Charleston
- DeCODE Discovers New Risk Factors For Prostate Cancer - Quick Facts - RTT News
| GOP lawmaker warns of dangers in health overhaul - The Guardian Posted: 20 Sep 2009 05:00 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) â€" A GOP congresswoman grateful for quick detection of her breast cancer says Democratic health overhaul plans could mean life-threatening delays in treatment. Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina said in her party's weekly radio and Internet address that her diagnosis "took six doctors, three mammograms and one ultrasound before they finally they found my cancer. This process took only a few weeks." "Under the government-run health care system they have in Canada and the United Kingdom, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to get those tests so quickly," she said. "One international study found that three times as many citizens in those countries wait longer than a month to see a specialist. When it comes to life-threatening diseases like cancer, delay could mean death." Democrats are looking for competition to private insurance companies to help drive prices down: a government-run insurance option, a trigger to add that option later; or nonprofit insurance cooperatives, designed to compete with private industry and give consumers more choices. "These so-called health care reform bills have different names: a public option, a co-op, a trigger," Myrick said. "Make no mistake, these are all gateways to government-run health care." She said that the proposals mean higher taxes for small business owners "at a time when unemployment is nearing 10 percent and analysts are predicting that any kind of recovery will be a jobless one." Myrick ran an advertising and public relations business and was mayor of Charlotte, N.C., before coming to Congress in 1995. "I can tell you from experience that this is the worst possible time to be imposing new, job-killing taxes. In fact, the nation's largest small business association found the health care tax increases being proposed would lead to the elimination of more than 1.6 million jobs." She said seniors should expect massive cuts to Medicare. "Doing this now, without implementing significant reforms to make the program more efficient, would leave seniors susceptible to the rationing of care," she said. Obama has said eliminating "waste and abuse" in the Medicare and Medicaid programs will help the government find money to cover most of the Americans now without insurance. Myrick said the overhaul "comes at a price tag of roughly $1 trillion in the midst of a year in which the government continues to set new records for red ink." Obama has set a 10-year spending target of $900 billion for lawmakers considering various proposals. --- On the Net: Rep. Sue Myrick: http://myrick.house.gov/bio(underscore)page.shtml  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Chemobrain' Makes Life Harder After Cancer - 6 News WRTV Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:31 AM PDT Distributed by Internet Broadcasting. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Free mammograms offered to low-income women - Coloradoan Posted: 20 Sep 2009 11:34 AM PDT When Dr. Angela King was 36, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was an experience that inspired her to work with the Womens Clinic of Northern Colorado to offer free mammograms to women who may otherwise be unable to afford a breast cancer screening, the clinics business director Helene Stout said. Many women dont have the resources to be screened, she said, and were eliminating one roadblock. The clinic is inviting uninsured women who have not had a mammogram in the last year to apply for the free screening. Participants must be U.S. citizens at least 40 years old and a Larimer County resident. Yearly net income cannot exceed $27,075 for an individual. A clinical breast exam will be provided from 8 a.m. to noon Oct. 10 at the Womens Clinic, 1101 S. Lemay Ave., Suite 300 in Fort Collins. Mammograms will be scheduled through the end of October during normal business hours.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cancer Patient Turns to Racing for Healing - ABC News 4 Charleston Posted: 20 Sep 2009 11:34 AM PDT |
| DeCODE Discovers New Risk Factors For Prostate Cancer - Quick Facts - RTT News Posted: 20 Sep 2009 10:44 AM PDT
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Sunday, deCODE genetics (DCGN: News ) said a team of its scientists and academic colleagues from Finland, Spain, the Netherlands and the United States published the discovery of four novel single-letter variations in the sequence of the human genome or SNPs discussing increased risk of prostate cancer. The company said that the SNPs are located on chromosomes 3q21, 19q13, as well as on 8q24, a region of the genome where deCODE and others have previously discovered risk factors for prostate, breast, colon and bladder cancer. The deCODE team followed up these latest findings with a population-based analysis in Iceland of these and other published sequence variants linked to risk of prostate cancer. This analysis demonstrates that by testing for these published SNPs it is possible to identify the approximately 1.5% of men who are at more than 2.5 times the average risk of the disease. by RTT Staff Writer For comments and feedback: contact editorial@rttnews.com  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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