http://homehealthscreeningblog.com The Official Blog of HomeHealthScreening.com Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:07:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged 5 companies with making false and misleading claims about their products ability to cure cancers. They have also reached settlements with 6 additional companies. The FTC has been working in concert with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Canadian authorities to raise ... http://homehealthscreeningblog.com/ftc-warns-of-bogus-snake-oil-cancer-cures/ Per resolutions of the U.S. Senate and President Bush, September is designated as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. This is the time of year for men to discuss with their physicians the need for prostate cancer screenings, which include a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test and a digital rectal exam (DRE). ... http://homehealthscreeningblog.com/national-prostate-cancer-awareness-month-september-2008/ Collecting a blood sample at home to be sent to the laboratory for HIV testing may seem a little unusual. However, it could be one solution to help diagnose the 250,000 American’s that are HIV positive but are not aware that they are infected. Recent data released from the Center for ... http://homehealthscreeningblog.com/is-home-hiv-testing-the-answer/ Have you ever wanted to see how your emotional well-being and current mood has been? The Psychology Resource Information System has recently added a online Brief Psychological Health Index self-assessment test. The test measures two positive mood and three negative mood indicators. The Brief Psychological Health Index is free and ... http://homehealthscreeningblog.com/psychological-health-screening/ With rising health care costs and the increasing numbers of uninsured and under-insured, many Americans are turning to health fairs for their preventive health care needs. However, if you don't have the time to attend your local health fair then what options do you have? Home Health Screening, LLC has ... http://homehealthscreeningblog.com/your-personal-online-health-fair/ Have you ever considered giving the man in your life a healthy gift for Father's Day? A letter recently appeared in the San Bernardino Sun, urging women to talk to the men in their life about getting a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test. The test is a well know measure for ... http://homehealthscreeningblog.com/a-healthy-gift-for-fathers-day/ According to the American Cancer Society there will be 68,810 new cases of badder cancer diagnosed in the U.S. in 2008. Bladder cancer affects an average of 1 in 27 men and 1 in 85 women. Hematuria Hematuria, blood in the urine, is one of the main signs of bladder cancer. The ... http://homehealthscreeningblog.com/home-health-screening-for-bladder-cancer/ What does baseball have to do with prostate cancer? Having a prostate cancer screening at a baseball venue may seem a little weird. However, recently 500 men lined up at the Milwaukee Brewer's Miller Park for a prostate cancer screening. A mobile screening RV was set up by the National Prostate ... http://homehealthscreeningblog.com/baseball-and-prostate-cancer-screenings/ Men are men no matter where you are in the world. The Australian Institute of Health just released their first report on their National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. This program sent out 450,000 feccal occult blood tests (FOBT) to Australians between the ages of 55 and 65. The FOBT, tests for ... http://homehealthscreeningblog.com/screening-men-for-colorectal-cancer/ The Boston Globe recently published the article, "The go-to person on HIV." They interviewed Dr. Rochelle Walensky, one of the nation's top thought-leaders on HIV testing. She pointed out that HIV/AIDS is no longer the death sentence that it was nearly two decades ago and that rather it is, "a ... http://homehealthscreeningblog.com/available-home-hiv-tests/