NEWS
May 23, 2012 | By Marie McCullough, Inquirer Staff Writer
In rejecting PSA screening for prostate cancer, an influential federal panel has chipped a cornerstone of preventive medicine, declaring that it's not always best to catch cancer as early as possible. "At best, PSA screening may help only 1 man in 1,000 avoid death from prostate cancer," the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said Monday. "Most prostate cancers found by PSA screening are slow growing, not life threatening, and will not cause a man any harm during his lifetime.
NEWS
May 25, 2005
I'M NOT a journalist nor do I understand the process of editing the Daily News, but I know you have better sense than to write in big bold letters "A schizophrenic is missing" (City/Region, May 19). Our society is polluted because of the misunderstanding and stereotypical views of how someone is categorized with a mental illness. The schizophrenic that your article so insensitively wrote about had a full description of the person missing. You had her age, weight, height and what she was last seen wearing, but instead led off with the schizophrenic piece.
NEWS
February 18, 1987 | By Carolyn Acker, Inquirer Trenton Bureau
A psychiatrist who helped establish the professional criteria for diagnosing mental disorders testified yesterday that surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead is not suffering from a personality disorder, as other mental- health experts have asserted. Appearing on behalf of Whitehead at the Baby M trial, Dr. Donald F. Klein testified that Wynnewood psychiatrist Marshall D. Schechter improperly diagnosed Whitehead as having a "mixed personality disorder. " In his diagnosis, prepared for the baby's court-appointed guardian, Schechter said he used the criteria established in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, referred to as DSM- III. Klein, a practicing psychiatrist in New York City and a medical professor at Columbia University, testified yesterday that he had been on the 19-member task force that helped write the manual.
NEWS
April 10, 1997 | by Ron Avery, Daily News Staff Writer
For young Joshua Knobel, life consisted of one crisis after another as he lay in a hospital bed, vomiting hour after hour, sometimes for days. Life was hell for his parents, as well, as they watched their child suffer, and waited for his death from Fazio-Laude Disease, one of the world's rarest neurological illnesses. But Joshua Knobel, now 14, of Langhorne, Bucks County, never had fatal Fazio-Laude. Yesterday, a Philadelphia jury awarded $9.9 million to Joshua and his parents in a medical malpractice suit against a former Children's Hospital of Philadelphia neurologist who diagnosed the disease.
BUSINESS
April 28, 1996 | By Marian Uhlman, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Given his credentials, one might presume that Jeffrey Lerner would have had an easier time finding the best medical treatment for his mother. But he bounced along like anyone else trying to gather sound answers for a grim cancer diagnosis. As a senior executive for a nonprofit health-services research group in Plymouth Meeting, Lerner could read whatever was available about malignant melanoma. Even so, his efforts did not equip him for his mother's three-year struggle with the disease.
NEWS
February 10, 1999 | By Rachel Scheier, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
The two men were brothers, they were friends, but they also were physician and patient. And one diagnosis made on a winter day five years ago changed everything. In December 1993, Joseph Labricciosa, a family practice physician in Springfield, Delaware County, examined his brother Robert and diagnosed a case of hemorrhoids. But he was actually suffering from rectal cancer. That first diagnosis recently culminated in a Delaware County courtroom, where a jury ordered Joseph Labricciosa to pay $8.2 million to his late brother's widow - one of the largest verdicts in recent county history, in a case that has divided a family.
NEWS
February 22, 2009 | By Cynthia Henry INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Betsy Smetona of Haddon Heights quit her job last summer to stay home with her children. Her 23-year-old twins, Megan and Michael, have graduated from the Bancroft School in Haddonfield and can't be left alone. Both have autism, although in different degrees. "It's a big shock to the system when they graduate," Smetona said. "Their schooling was everything to them. It met their social and extracurricular needs. It's hard to find something in the community for Michael and Megan to do. " For the Smetonas and other New Jersey families in a similar situation, help could be on the way. Gov. Corzine signed laws in 2007 and 2008 that are now taking effect to enable early diagnosis of autism, develop screening guidelines for physicians, create a statewide patient registry, and educate emergency responders to recognize developmental disabilities.
NEWS
November 19, 1998 | By Joseph A. Slobodzian, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The U.S. Attorney's Office yesterday announced that Presbyterian Medical Center in West Philadelphia had agreed to pay $535,448 to settle civil allegations by the government that it improperly obtained Medicare payments by using an inaccurate diagnosis reimbursement code for pneumonia patients from October 1992 to March 1997. The agreement, under which Presbyterian officials did not admit liability under the False Claims Act, was one of three such agreements filed by prosecutors in Philadelphia and in Chicago.
NEWS
April 15, 1992 | by Dr. Peter H. Gott, Special to the Daily News
Q: I would appreciate information on fibromyalgia and polymyalgia. I've had many tests and my diagnosis has been narrowed to these conditions. Anti- inflammatories such as Advil have eased the pain, but I need some direction. A: Fibromyalgia is a common rheumatic disorder, of unknown cause, marked by muscle pain, tenderness and stiffness. The hallmark of this disease is the presence of "trigger points," localized areas of muscle or tendon that are exquisitely tender when pressed.
SPORTS
October 1, 1987 | By JAY GREENBERG, Daily News Sports Writer
Tim Kerr has been hospitalized since Monday with an as-yet undiagnosed malady that is suspected to be linked to his shoulder problems. The Flyers' right wing was complaining of hot and cold flashes, soreness in his left shoulder and a general lethargy when he entered Graduate Hospital. Dr. John Gregg, the orthopedist who operated on the shoulder three times this summer, said the diagnosis was not complete, but that he expected Kerr would be "fine. " Gregg would not comment any further.