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Considering Longer Chemotherapy
  

July 21, 2009 (New York Times) The newest prognosis for cancer may be longer chemotherapy. Doctors and pharmaceutical companies are moving toward treating cancer patients with drugs continuously, even when they may not urgently need them. That would be a departure from the common practice of stopping treatment when the cancer is under control and resuming it only if the cancer worsens.
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Weighing School Backpacks
  

July 20, 2009 (New York Times) Last year, my daughter’s school backpack got so heavy, she would sometimes just drag it behind her rather than hoist it onto her shoulders. Backpacks with wheels are too bulky for her locker, so next year I’m thinking about buying an extra set of textbooks to keep at home.
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Learning of Risk of Alzheimer’s Seems to Do No Harm
July 16, 2009 (New York Times) A genetic test that can find an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease does no psychological harm to people who take it, even if they test positive for a risky gene, a new study find
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At MediGuide, we take privacy issues very, very seriously. A great many businesses engage in the collecting and selling of demographic and personal information from their web sites. At MediGuide we do not engage in any such practices.

Our privacy policy is very clear:

We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our web site unless you specifically choose to provide that information to us.

Here is how we handle information about your visit to our web site:

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site, read pages, access information regarding physicians and health care facilities, we will gather and store some information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
The date and time our site was accessed;
The pages that were visited;
The Internet domain and IP address from where our web site was accessed;
The address of another web site where the visitor may have come from (referring site).

We use this information to assist us in making our web site more useful to visitors, to learn about the number of visitors to our site, and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record personal information about individuals and their visits.

If you specifically choose to provide us with personal information about yourself, such as when signing up for certain MediGuide services, you have our commitment that no personally identifiable information you provide to us will be disclosed to any third party unless you have specifically authorized us to do so.

We are in the business of providing information that is of the highest quality. MediGuide uses state-of-the-art security and encryption technology and business practices to ensure that all information you share with us is safeguarded from unauthorized third party access, alteration, and theft.

If you are concerned that we have treated your personal information in a manner that does not comply with this privacy policy, or you wish to change or delete information that you have already provided, please write to us: privacy@mediGuide.com

Or, via regular mail to:

MediGuide Privacy Department Phone: (302)425-5900
3801 Kennett Pike, Suite 305C Toll Free: 1-800-368-0433
P.O. Box 4413 Fax: (302)425-5911
Greenville, DE 19807