Deferring medical care can cause serious financial and health implications. It can lead to higher health care costs and unhealthier outcomes for many patients according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A patient’s health may deteriorate when they defer care, making an already bad situation far worse.
According to the National Cancer Institute, data suggests the U.S. could see an extra 10,000 deaths from breast and colorectal cancer alone over the next 10 years due to deferred care during the pandemic. This is an increase of roughly 1%, from these two tumor types, which together account for about one-sixth of all cancer deaths.
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16 Jun 2021
Russian leader Vladimir Putin mocked America’s human rights record during a press conference Wednesday following his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden by referring to the continued existence of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, “secret CIA prisons,” and alleged assassinations of U.S. political leaders.
Putin was responding to a reporter who noted, “Americans are continuously using this rhetoric of political prisoners in Russia” and raising the issue of the many Russian dissidents and Putin rivals in the country who have been poisoned, imprisoned, or otherwise harmed in ways suggesting Putin regime involvement. The reporter also noted that Biden had referred to Putin previously as a “killer,” a term Biden did not defend during a separate press conference Tuesday.
The rye and rapeseed that Rick Clifton cultivated in central Ohio were coming along nicely until his tractor rumbled over the flat, fertile landscape, spraying it with herbicides. These crops weren’t meant to be eaten, but to occupy the ground between Clifton’s soybean harvest last fall and this spring’s planting. Yet thanks to their…