Piercing and Tattoo News

By OLGA PIERCE UPI Health Business Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) — A court decision this week means laws requiring employers to offer health coverage will be off the menu for state healthcare reform efforts.
Last year, Maryland passed a law requiring employers with more than 10,000 employees to spend the equivalent of 8 percent of […]

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 19 (UPI) — Japanese researchers said Friday that a well-tolerated anti-cancer agent improves survival among people treated for stomach cancer.
“The use of S-1 as a single agent for use after extensive gastric cancer surgery was very effective,” said Mitsuru Sasako, professor of surgery and deputy director of the National Cancer Center […]

BERN, Switzerland, Jan. 19 (UPI) — Doctors should encourage patients with sexually transmitted infections to tell their partners to seek treatment, say Swiss and British researchers.
The researchers at the University of Bern in Switzerland and Royal Free & University College Hospitals Medical School in London also say that doctors should also provide home testing […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 19 (UPI) — U.S. women who take more control over choosing their breast-cancer surgeon are more likely to be treated by more experienced surgeons.
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center looked at 1,844 women recently diagnosed with breast cancer in the Detroit and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. […]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) — Sixty-nine percent of those age 50 and older use complementary and alternative medicine but do not talk to their doctors about it, says a U.S. survey.
Women were more likely than men to have discussed CAM use — 26 percent versus 16 percent — and what types of therapies […]