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ICER Prostate Cancer Web Aid Receives Bronze Award for Web-Based Resource/Tool for Older AmericansICER's website, "Your Options for Low-Risk Prostate Cancer: A Web-Based Patient Decision Aid," received a 2011 Bronze Award from the New Product & Technology Awards for a web-based resource/tool for older Americans.
The New Product & Technology Awards recognize the best products, services, and technologies for older adults and their families. The competition also includes recognition of web-based and mobile resources — websites, social media, e-newsletters, mobile applications, and more.
It Costs More, but Is It Worth More?
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Steven D. Pearson
If you want to know what is wrong with American health care today, exhibit A might be the two new proton beam treatment facilities the Mayo Clinic has begun building, one in Minnesota, the other in Arizona, at a cost of more than $180 million dollars each. They are part of a medical arms race for proton beam machines, which could cost taxpayers billions of dollars for a treatment that, in many cases, appears to be no better than cheaper alternatives.
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