Cancer, taste, healthcare overseas -- Editor's Picks
Worth checking out from around the Web:
From Newsweek: We Fought Cancer ... And Cancer Won: After billions spent on research and decades of hit or miss treatments, it's time to rethink the war on cancer:
Cancer is on track to kill 565,650 people in the United States this year -- more than 1,500 a day, equivalent to three jumbo jets crashing and killing everyone aboard 365 days a year.... The uplifting stories and statistics -- death rates from female breast cancer have fallen steadily since 1990; fecal occult blood testing and colonoscopy have helped avert some 80,000 deaths from colorectal cancer since 1990 -- can send the wrong message.
From Psychology Today: Accounting for Taste: Our choices in books, movies, music and art go to the core of who we are. What your tastes reveal about you:
Arguing about taste is as fundamental as having it in the first place. We take for granted that different people enjoy different things -- and that others feel as confident in their judgments as we do in ours.
And from NPR: Health Care for All: In Western Europe, it's a reality:
Healthcare lessons from France; most patients happy with German healthcare; Netherlands' healthcare reflects national values; in Switzerland, an easier path for the disabled; and more.
-- Tami Dennis
