Medical procedures rated by state's expert comparison shoppers (Seattle Times)
Washington's Health Technology Assessment program is weighing scientific evidence for various medical procedures to determine whether they merit coverage by state agencies. An 11-member citizens group already has ruled against covering upright MRIs; discography for diagnosing back pain; and CT, or "virtual," colonoscopy. The binding decision applies to 763,000 state and public employees, ...
Ahem, judge, you just Gotti gimme break (New York Daily News)
Peter Gotti sounded more comedian than crime boss on Thursday as he bantered with a federal judge in an attempt to get a lighter sentence.
ColonCAD aids diagnosis (the Engineer)
Doctors may be able to diagnose cancers of the colon more accurately and quickly with new Computer Aided Diagnostics (CAD) software from UK-based Medicsight.
Clinical Trials For Colon Cancer Screening Technology (Medical News Today)
A Northwestern University biomedical engineer who has developed optical technology shown to be effective for the early detection of colon cancer has received a $7.5 million grant over five years from the National Cancer Institute to further study an instrument that potentially could become a routine colon cancer screening test and to launch large-scale clinical trials.
The Fergus Falls Daily Journal (Fergus Falls Daily Journal)
When baseball icon Mickey Mantle, 63, neared the end of his life while fighting cancer, he called former New York Yankee teammate Bobby Richardson, asking for his prayers. Throughout his baseball career, Richardson placed faith and family above baseball.
