Medical Procedures or Tests

Recent upheaval over recurring lead contamination at Island Trees High School in Levittown has some parents and school board members anxious about health risks from the school's shuttered rifle range. But the dangers remain unclear. As with chips of...

Julie Deardorff offers some good advice to women looking to get faster mammograms ("Want a mammogram? Get in line," Smart, Oct. 5). In addition to short wait times at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, another consideration is the waiting...

They arrived early. As they walked across the waiting room, a voice stopped them from behind a closing door. "I'm not ready for you." As the words, clinical and cold, floated in the silence, the young woman sat down next to her mother. And she knew, as...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Most people over 75 should stop getting routine colon cancer tests, according to a government health task force that also rejected the latest X-ray screening technology. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force — in a break...

This story was first published in the Tribune on Jan. 1, 1995. In March 1987, President Ronald Reagan and French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac appeared in the East Room of the White House to announce that their governments had settled the question of...

Most people over 75 should stop getting routine colon cancer tests, according to a government health task force that also rejected the latest X-ray screening technology. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force - in a break with other medical and cancer...

Medical private practice in Los Angeles has some unique features. We Angelenos fear the occasional earthquake, drought and fire, along with the more frequent wrinkles, subcutaneous fat and less than perfect health. Since we can’t do much about the earth’s...

I hope all those eager to see the United States convert to a national health care system read "Computers can help spot cancer on mammograms" (Oct. 2). As the article notes, the British national health system pays for one mammogram every three years...

Doctors usually recommend that women over the age of 40 get yearly mammograms. But if you're planning on calling Northwestern Memorial Hospital's state-of-the-art breast imaging center, grab next year's calendar: The next opening is in May. The seven-...

from the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program 800-877-8077 How many women develop breast cancer each year? For 2008, it is estimated that 252,000 new cases of breast cancer (stages 0-4) will be diagnosed. Women have a one in seven...

A computer is as good as a second pair of eyes for helping a radiologist spot breast cancer on a mammogram, one of the largest and most rigorous tests of computer-aided detection found. The computers flag suspicious areas on X-rays for a closer look...

NEW YORK (AP) _ A computer is as good as a second pair of eyes for helping a radiologist spot breast cancer on a mammogram, one of the largest and most rigorous tests of computer-aided detection found. Like spell-checkers looking for mistakes, the...