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A Creative Plan for Fighting Cancer -- And Slashing Medical Costs

By Andrew SchneiderDec 4th 2009 – 12:12PM

About 400 physicians are gathered today in Lansing, Mich., to hear an unlikely message: A major health insurance company wants them to test symptom-free patients to determine whether they have or may get cancer. And it will pay the doctors to do it. The plan, conceived by one of the state's top cancer doctors and to be...

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  • 10/02/11 Penn study takes on malaria Source: The Daily Pennsylvanian - Univ of PA - Philadelphia PA Every year, approximately 300 million people are affected by malaria worldwide — and for 1 to 2 million, the results are fatal.
  • 03/15/11 Karmanos Doctor on Radiation Dangers Source: FOX - KTTV 2 - Detroit MI SOUTHFIELD, Mich. The radiation and chemicals in the air are of serious concern right now in Japan.
  • 01/28/11 Breast implants linked to blood cancer Source: Zee News Women with saline and silicone gel-filled breast implants may be at greater risk of developing a rare form of blood cancer known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL), according to the US Food and Drug Administration.
  • 01/07/11 Study Out on Bottled Water Transparency Source: FOX - KTTV 2 - Detroit MI A new study out about bottled water says we might not know what we are drinking.
  • 08/07/10 Oil spill cleanup workers confronted by incomplete... Source: Cleveland.com Public health officials say they face a daunting challenge: how to inform workers about the possible dangers when studies on the toxic effects of such a large spill have never been done.

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