Experts issue call to rethink screening for breast cancer and prostate cancer

October 20, 2009

Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer – the most diagnosed cancers for women and men respectively – have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts from the University of California, San Francisco and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in an opinion piece published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.



Bryant Lecture brings national health care experts to campus

October 15, 2009

The president of the American Medical Association and an Obama administration official are among the nationally known experts on health care who will discuss reform during the seventh-annual Frank Bryant Jr., M.D., Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.