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Lung Cancer CT Scans Produce False Alarms
webmd.com — “One in three people who undergo serial CT scans to spot lung cancer are given false-positive results that can lead to unnecessary -- and potentially harmful -- follow-up tests, government researchers report.” View full resource at webmd.com
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Lung Cancer CT Scans Produce False Alarms: One in three people who undergo serial CT scans to spot lung cancer a.. http://tinyurl.com/m8h9jy
Nation's Report Card: Science Results Alarming, Less Than Half Of Student Proficient
huffingtonpost.com — “Very few students have the advanced skills that could lead to careers in science and technology, according to results of a national exam released Tuesday that education leaders called alarming. Only 1 percent of fourth-grade and 12th-grade students, and 2 percent of eighth-graders scored in the highest group on the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal test known as the Nation's Report Card.” View full resource at huffingtonpost.com
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Scary statistic. RT @HuffPostEdu Less than half of US students proficient in science. http://huff.to/gRIcOz
Should smokers be tested for lung cancer? - Harvard Health Publications
health.harvard.edu — “Routinely checking smokers for early signs of lung cancer hasn't translated into fewer deaths. New results from the National Lung Screening Trial indicate that yearly low-dose CT scans can reduce the death rate from lung cancer by 20%, which could save up to 30,000 lives a year. Despite the encouraging results, it is too early to recommend that heavy smokers immediately begin getting yearly CT scans for lung cancer. The physical, emotional, and monetary costs of saving these lives with year” View full resource at health.harvard.edu
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CT scans can spot early cancer in heavy smokers, but cause lots of false alarms along the way. http://t.co/OWIvJOi
Change of Subject: Backlash on 'tiger' parenting and test-obsessed education
blogs.chicagotribune.com — “From Battle Hymn of the Anti-Tiger Mother --The powerful, alarming documentary that's riling up parents across the country by Emily Yoffe (Slate): Critics in Race to Nowhere argue (that) an unintended result of No Child Left Behind has been that...” View full resource at blogs.chicagotribune.com
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Backlash on 'tiger' parenting and test-obsessed education http://bit.ly/iGLbsi
Gulf oil spill: Investigators see 'culture of complacency' in drilling companies - latimes.com
latimes.com — “Evidence shows that 'a culture of complacency' rather than a 'culture of safety' prevailed at BP, Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton as they worked on the doomed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, said the chairmen of a presidential commission investigating the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.” View full resource at latimes.com
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LA Times Environment Health News
'Culture of complacency' ruled at companies, oil spill panel's co-chairman says http://lat.ms/9haR8G
Too much data can overwhelm physicians and harm patients | KevinMD.com
kevinmd.com — “Too much data can overwhelm physicians and potentially place patients at harm. Prioritizing abnormal test results will really be the true power of electronic test reporting.” View full resource at kevinmd.com
Most Recently Shared on October 12, 2010 at 2:20 pm By:
John Poikonen,PharmD Doctor, Pharmacist, and PharmD
Too much data can overwhelm physicians and harm patients http://t.co/3lVVHa1 via @kevinmd
Parents shouldn’t lose custody over obesity | BabyCenter
blogs.babycenter.com — “An editorial for JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, has sparked outrage. Should the parents of severely obese kids lose custody? The authors say they've been misunderstood. But I think their basic premise is alarming: To justify breaking up a family, the state doesn't need to demonstrate child abuse or dangerous neglect. Instead, it's enough to show that parents have failed to make their kids lose weight. It's a results-based litmus test, and the idea should frighten us all.” View full resource at blogs.babycenter.com
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Travis Phelps Parenting Supporter
Parents shouldn't lose custody over obesity: He was talking about foster care as a “last resort” to help dangero... http://bit.ly/pXYEuS
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