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| Health notes (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) |
| GET A COLONOSCOPY Colon cancer is the second deadliest cancer behind lung cancer, and a big reason is that so many people are unaware that they have it and seek treatment late. |
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| Urban medical schools feel weight of uninsured (AP via Yahoo! Finance) |
| Dr. Herbert Smitherman nervously monitors the city's fluctuating unemployment rate and sinking economy. As one of about 750 Wayne State University Medical School physicians, he looks at the deluge of job cuts in Detroit's auto, manufacturing and other industries and sees even more people lining up for health care they can't afford to pay. |
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| Health dept. targets colorectal cancer (The Capital) |
| By medical standards, Margaret Divine was doing everything right to reduce her risk of colorectal cancer. She made sure to get a colonoscopy every three to five years, which is generally recommended for people age 50 and older. But when she was tested in April, doctors detected a precancerous polyp. |
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