Changing Culture

Is there a relationship between our failing healthcare system and medical societies? I am Dr. Mike Henderson, Central Oregon Medical Society president for the next couple of years. Medical societies promote the profession and its members. Given the inexorable...

Vast Study Casts Doubts on Value of Mammograms

By Gina Kolata  /  New York Times  /  February 11, 2014 Source: Miller AB, et al. Twenty five year follow-up for breast cancer incidence and mortality of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study: randomised screening trial. BMJ. Online February 11, 2014One of the...

Too Much Mammography

Source: BMJ 2014;348:g1403  February 11, 2014 The editorial accompanying the Canadian National Breast Cancer Screening Trial report in the BMJ was written by Mette Kalager, Dept. of Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School, and colleagues in Norway and Sweden concludes...