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01/20/2016 / By Greg White

Cancer industry preys on false-positive mammograms to ensure future screenings

It’s no secret that Big Pharma is a multi-billion industry eager to make a buck off a false cancer diagnosis. Many patients become angered by their false-positive test results, and never have another cancer screening again. In an effort to ensure patients keep coming back, a recent study released in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers […]

11/16/2015 / By Vicki Batts

Common medical procedures have no scientific merit, study says

A recent review published online at the Journal of the American Medical Association found that many commonly employed medical procedures applied to millions of people each year are founded on questionable evidence, at best. In some instances, the evidence to support the treatment may not even exist. According to the research, medical overuse “encompasses overdiagnosis, […]

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