Prostate Cancer

— Inner-city black men are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with The findings, to be published in the April issue of the Journal of the National Medical Association, call attention to the need to screen these men early — beginning at age 45 instead of 50 — and to offer them ongoing Even so, But the researchers found a different situation for inner-city men in Jacksonville, Fla.

“It all came about when we noticed that several patients...

The California Attorney General warned that state taxpayers will be left paying the bills for treatment that insurance companies are not required to cover under S.

1955's junk health plans: "As plans drop their maternity or other benefits, and as employees are priced out of coverage, the various Medicaid programs, and other health care programs in the states will become even more overburdened than they already are." Dana Christensen, a California widow who was insured with one of the junk health plans promoted under S.

1955, traveled to Washington D.C.

to oppose the legislation in the Senate.

Dana was left with over $450,000 in medical bills when her husband Doug passed away of bone cancer.

The health plan covered less than 20 percent of Doug's costs, even though the couple had paid for a special chemotherapy rider.

Though similar legislation has been proposed in past sessions and passed by the House of Representatives, the bill was approved for the first time in the Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions...