Earlier today President Bush vetoed H.R. 6331, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, which was approved by Congress last week.
Lack of Insurance and Regular Medical Care Influences Colorectal Cancer Screening
Posted by on July 14th, 2008
Half of Americans over 50 have not been screened for colorectal cancer according to a new survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
The 2005 National Health Survey interviewed 31,000 adults, including 13,500 who were over 50. It found that 50 percent of people over the age of 50 had been screened for colorectal cancer, but the other half had not. While this was an improvement over the 43 percent screening rate in 2000, it was far from desirable according to the researchers who analyzed the information. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tony Snow Dies from Colon Cancer
Posted by on July 13th, 2008
Tony Snow died early Saturday morning from colon cancer. He was 53.
Formerly White House Press Secretary, Snow was diagnosed with colon cancer in February of 2005. He had surgery and chemotherapy. His cancer was in remission until a recurrence in his liver in March, 2007.
His mother also died of colon cancer when Snow was a teenager and she was 38. Read the rest of this entry »
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Decreases in Cancer Deaths Limited to Highly-Educated
Posted by on July 10th, 2008
For people from 25 to 64, U. S. death rates from the four major cancers — lung, breast, prostate, and colorectal — have decreased steadily from the early 1990′s. However, with a single exception, those declines have been limited to people with at least 12 years of education.
For colon and rectal cancer, death rates for those with at least 16 years of education declined significantly for men and women, both black and white. However, death rates did not change at all for white men, white women or black women who had less than a high school education. Death rates for black men with less than 12 years of education actually increased by 2.7 percent each year. Read the rest of this entry »
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Kennedy Returns to the Senate
Posted by on July 10th, 2008
Greeted by a standing ovation from senators on both sides of the aisle, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) returned to the Senate floor on Wednesday for the first time since he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in May.
His return brought a victory to a stalled Medicare bill. The Medicare Improvements for Patients Providers Act (HR 6331) was approved yesterday by a veto proof margin in the Senate. Now the 10.6 percent cut to physicians’ payments, which went into effect on July 1st, will be reversed.
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