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Screen Time Higher Than Ever: Too Much Screen Time on Studies about Screen Time? by Dr. Polly Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Wed 26 Oct 2011 12:19pm for this tantalizing finding from your new study Zero to Eight: Children's Media Use in America. I will be sure to take into account how much screen time I've used to read and comment on it. Sure, someone needed to establish a baseline measure of children's screen time for psychologists and anthropologists to cite over and over in the coming decades if not millenia Read on »

NHS screening head admits to accuracy failure of Down’s syndrome screening by WelcometoIllinois Patient Expert

Posted Fri 12 Jun 2009 6:43pm The head of the UK’s screening programmes has admitted that the NHS has failed to roll-out more accurate screening tests for Down’s syndrome and that as a result a number of healthy foetuses are unnecessarily lost due to miscarriage triggered by diagnostic testing. Dr Anne Mackie, the director of programmes at the UK National Screening Committee (UKNSC Read on »

To screen or not to screen...pro ... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Mon 10 Nov 2008 4:22pm To screen or not to screen...problems with false-positives on some procedures...BD The problem: Plenty of screens don't really work that well. Many yield lots of false... that there are two sides to screening," says Dr. Barbara Yawn, director of research at Olmstead Medical Center and a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, a government Read on »

Screening for chronic kidney disease: an evidence based review for the National Screening Committee by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted Thu 28 May 2009 12:22am The UK National Screening Committee has considered the report “ Screening for Chronic Kidney Disease: An Evidence Based Review for the National Screening Committee ” produced by Dr Catherine Heffernan in June 2008. They have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to support population based screening for chronic kidney disease Read on »

Hsieh PJM OpEd: Screening For Terrorists vs. Screening For Cancer by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 30 Nov 2011 8:25am Today's PJMedia has published my latest OpEd, " Screening For Terrorists vs. Screening For Cancer ". My theme is that the seemingly contradictory policies of the government of terrorist screening vs. cancer screening actually demonstrate a common theme. Here is the opening As the holiday travel season approaches, millions of American air Read on »

The Domestic Violence Screening Form: My solution for improving the screening process by Maria Phelps Posted Thu 06 May 2010 2:01pm WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED READING, PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR FEEDBACK The idea that I had yesterday that would improve the screening process for domestic violence patients too... idea and submit this to my Assemblyman for consideration. If, and only if a staff member in a hospital remembers to do a domestic abuse screening, it is usually a few direct Read on »

UK National Screening Committee advises against PSA-based screening initiative by Dr. Arnon Krongrad Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 06 Dec 2010 12:00am representatives. “The NHS Cancer Screening Programme will continue to provide advice to help men who are concerned about prostate cancer to make informed decisions about their health.” Professor Julietta Patnick, director of the NHS Cancer Screening Programmes, said: “Men should speak to their GP if they have any concerns. Any man over the age of 50 who, after Read on »

PSA: To Screen or Not to Screen by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted Sun 09 Oct 2011 12:51pm for about 9 years. Not surprisingly they found almost double the rate of prostate cancer in the screened group compared to the non-screened group (8.2% vs. 4.8%). More importantly... didn't have to worry about prostate cancer. (There is also additional evidence that men 65 and older with a very low PSA will likely never get prostate cancer, and screening Read on »

To Screen or Not to Screen for Prostate Cancer by Rabbi Ed . Posted Tue 04 Aug 2009 6:45pm senior editor yesterday reviewed why routine annual prostate cancer screening is so important.(See www.care2.com/greenliving/symptoms-of-six-common-cancers.html?e05458ea9260a1354f... For the past 40 years doctors have emphasized the value of routine annual screening to avoid more advanced cancer. However some leading scientists have now vocally opposed Read on »

“Truth” in screening … How many men to screen and treat to “save a life”? by Dr. Arnon Krongrad Medical Doctor

Posted Sun 13 Feb 2011 12:00am at this time that prostate cancer screening has any impact at all on overall survival of male populations. There are a lot of people who would like to be able to use the currently... One of the statistical games ongoing since publication of the results of the PLCO and the ERSPC screening trials in the New England Journal of Medicine (nearly 2 Read on »

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