American Urological Association – Talking About Men's Health

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Men Not Smart Enough To Make Own Healthcare Decisions

May 21, 2012January 30, 2014Advocacy, Editorials, Legislative, Policy, Prostate, Public Policy, Regulatory, Well-being

In what may go down as one of the most controversial—and most damaging—pieces of healthcare policy in decades, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force just issued a recommendation that men should no longer get routine screenings for prostate cancer. They believe that the test—called PSA, for the prostate-specific antigen it measures—does more harm than good....Continue reading

An Informed Decision

March 22, 2010March 7, 2012Ramon P. Llamas, MPH, CHESPolicy, Prostate, Public Policy

Richard J. Ablin, research professor of immunobiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, has been studying prostate cancer for over 40 years. After discovering the Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA), an enzyme made by the prostate, and subsequent approval by the Food and Drug Administration in 1994, the PSA test is the most commonly used...