Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.jone-system.com!mmcatv.co.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed.news.tiscali.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!yrmfa-01p3-236.ppp11.odn.ad.JP!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Ginstrom" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan Subject: Re: "Compulsory" health checks Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:15:11 +0900 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: yrmfa-01p3-236.ppp11.odn.ad.jp (61.116.164.236) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1081771877 650082 I 61.116.164.236 ([101276]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1123 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1123 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:13314 "James Annan" wrote in message news:c96ea403.0404120315.7fb03de1@posting.google.com... > "Ryan Ginstrom" wrote in message news:... > > I would like to see the source for this, please. > > I just found that on the lancet web site - it happens to be free to > read (but you have to register). It was this news article that I saw > it mentioned in first: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3442113.stm > and it turns out that the 2.9% figure the BBC quote is actually for > men only, for women it is 3.8% and 3.2% is the overall figure. That Interesting, thanks. I personally sometimes wonder if the extra X-rays/CTs are ways of earning some extra money by Japanese doctors in the presence of mandated prices, sort of like prescribing way too much medicine. -- Regards, Ryan Ginstrom