The US Preventive Services Task Force issued new lung cancer screening guidelines in December, 2013.
Health Screening Recommendations
Each set of guidelines are determined by review of available literature with recommendations from an expert committee. The USPSTF guidelines will be discussed here.
Blood Donation
Five million people in the United States get blood transfusions each year. The biggest reason people don’t donate is that the thought of doing so never occurs to them.
Shorter Could Be Better When It Comes to Antibiotics
A new clinical trial offers strong evidence that shorter courses of antibiotic treatment are in fact just as effective as longer courses.
Comparing Weight Loss Programs
Weight loss programs and diets are big business with $2.5 billion spent on these services in 2014. How do the various programs stack up?
Sedentary Time
One way to view activity level and health outcome is to measure health outcomes based on amount of non-active time.








