UroToday.com - Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in American men and causes more than 60,000 deaths annually. Treatment of prostate cancer with either surgery, radiation therapy, cryotherapy or medical treatment is associated with significant life altering morbidity. Both incontinence and erectile dysfunction (ED) are too often sequelae of these treatment alternatives.

Recently, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran an article about dental malpractice and asked the question, “Is there enough scrutiny in dental deaths?” While death during a dental procedure is rare, there is about one death per year attributed to dental work in Washington State. While we don’t read about dental malpractice as often as medical malpractice, it does happen. Dentists get malpractice insurance like physicians, surgeons and hospitals do and they usually purchase it through the same in

Measures attached to International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans may have contributed to a resurgence in tuberculosis in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Governments could be reducing funding for health services such as hospitals and clinics to meet strict IMF economic targets.

A study found that countries participating in IMF programs had seen tuberculosis death rates increase by at least 17 percent between 1991 and 2000, which is equivalent to more than 100,000 additional deaths. Nations that received money from institutions with less restrictive economic conditions saw a nearly 8 percent drop in tuberculosis death rates over the same period.

American medical care may be the most expensive in the world, and it is definitely not worth every penny. A recent study highlighted the stark contrast between what the United States spends on its health system and the quality of care it delivers.

The report shows that the United States spends more than twice as much on each person for health care as most other industrialized countries. But it has fallen to last place among those countries in preventing deaths through use of timely and effective medical care.

The findings are likely to provide supporting evidence for the notion that the nation’s health care system needs to be fixed.