Archive for April, 2008

Screening Men for Colorectal Cancer

Men are men no matter where you are in the world. The Australian Institute of Health just released their first report on their National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.
This program sent out 450,000 feccal occult blood tests (FOBT) to Australians between the ages of 55 and 65. The FOBT, tests for hidden blood in the stool. […]

Available Home HIV Tests

The Boston Globe recently published the article, “The go-to person on HIV.” They interviewed Dr. Rochelle Walensky, one of the nation’s top thought-leaders on HIV testing. She pointed out that HIV/AIDS is no longer the death sentence that it was nearly two decades ago and that rather it is, “a chronic, manageable disease.”
The disease is […]