It is no longer news that Americans, and older Americans in particular, get more routine screening tests than they need, more than are useful. Prostate tests for men over 75, annual Pap smears for women over 65 and colonoscopies for anyone over 75 — all are overused, large-scale studies have shown.Now it appears that many older patients are also subjected to too-frequent use of the other kind of testing,...
Stocks decline as investors wait on 'cliff'
Label: Business Stocks declined for a third day on Wall Street as investors waited for signs of progress on the “fiscal cliff.”The Dow Jones...
Nov
27
Former baseball union head Miller dead at 95
Label: World Marvin Miller, the union leader who created free agency for baseball players and revolutionized professional sports with multimillion...
Audra McDonald new 'Live From Lincoln Center' host
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Broadway superstar Audra McDonald is adding a new chapter to her long history with Lincoln Center.The singer-actress is the new host of "Live From Lincoln Center," PBS said Tuesday.McDonald will emcee seven broadcasts from December through spring 2013, starting Dec. 13 with "The Richard Tucker Opera Gala" and Dec. 31 with the New York Philharmonic's New Year's Eve gala."It's a great...
Clearing the Fog Around Personality Disorders
Label: HealthFor years they have lived as orphans and outliers, a colony of misfit characters on their own island: the bizarre one and the needy one, the untrusting and the crooked, the grandiose and the cowardly. Their customs and rituals are as captivating as any tribe’s, and at least as mystifying. Every mental anthropologist who has visited their world seems to walk away with a different story, a...
Stocks fail to get boost from consumer confidence
Label: Business Investors took little comfort from the latest deal to deliver financial aid to Greece and increases in U.S. consumer confidence...
Nov
26
Sex, love, surrogacy and 'Sessions'
Label: World BERKELEY, Calif. — Cheryl Cohen Greene likes to spend weekends close to home with her husband, Bob, a former postal worker....
Yes, the Government Can Still Spy on Your Digital Life (for Now)
Label: TechnologyAhead of a controversial Senate debate on digital privacy this week, the battle over warrantless cell-phone and Internet searches is beginning to take shape — even as law-enforcement agencies continue to carry out the searches anyway. Judges across the country have thrown out cases that used tracked digital American lives without warrants, but others haven’t, reports The New York Times‘s Somini...
Rolling Stones storm London; New York next
Label: LifestyleLONDON (AP) — The verdict is in: The Rolling Stones are back. They may look old, but they still sound young.That was the consensus Monday as Britain's rock critics responded to the Stones 50th anniversary bash Sunday night, the first of five shows to commemorate their half century of rhythm and blues-tinged rock. It was the band's first London performance in five years, and their own advancing years...
Agency Investigates Deaths and Injuries Associated With Bed Rails
Label: HealthThomas Patterson for The New York TimesGloria Black’s mother died in her bed at a care facility. In November 2006, when Clara Marshall began suffering from the effects of dementia, her family moved her into the Waterford at Fairway Village, an assisted living home in Vancouver, Wash. The facility offered round-the-clock care for Ms. Marshall, who had wandered away from home several times. Her husband...
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