Posted By: Washington University School of Medicine 
Date Posted: October 17th, 2011 Categories: Health Care
A draft recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force calling for an end to routine PSA testing for healthy men age 50 and older goes too far, says a prostate cancer expert at the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. “Mass screening is not the [...]
Posted By: Make Medicine Better Date Posted: October 7th, 2011 Categories: Healthy Living
BJC HealthCare earned top honors for employee wellness in the St. Louis Business Journal’s first survey of the area’s healthiest employers. BJC was named the winner among 12 companies in the category of large employers with 5,000 or more employees. A total of 42 companies were finalists in five categories based on size. BJC was [...]
Posted By: Steven Lipstein Date Posted: August 10th, 2011 Categories: Health Care Health Care Reform
As the rancorous debates to reduce the deficit continue in our nation’s Capitol, it is imperative that funding to help cover the costs of training future doctors be preserved. With a current and projected shortfall in physicians, cutting federal dollars that reimburse hospitals like Barnes-Jewish, as well as 26 other teaching hospitals in Missouri, for [...]
Posted By: Make Medicine Better Date Posted: August 4th, 2011 Categories: Health Care Reform Reform
Questions: What are some of your ideas on how Medicare and Medicaid can be fixed? How fixable are they, and what problems and hurdles need to be overcome? Jeff Fee, president and CEO, Providence St. Patrick Hospital (Missoula, Mont.). We have to have a capitalistic model or a model more analogous to the public education [...]
Posted By: Dr. Michael Fuller Date Posted: August 2nd, 2011 Categories: Health Care
I am obviously biased in regards to this question, but yes, absolutely. Do they need to go for frequent check ups if they are otherwise healthy? No, they do not. Early on in the twenties is a great time to establish a relationship with a doctor who can help guide them through their health for [...]
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