A new study suggests that while spam continues to increase, people are less likely to complain about it. Of course, plenty of people are still complaining. The study shows that only 28% of people say spam doesn't bother them, up from 16%. However, that still means that there are 72% of people out there who aren't at all happy about the spam in their inbox. What isn't clear from the article, though, is how many of the people who have come to terms with spam are actually clicking and buying from it -- because that's where it becomes a nuisance for the rest of us. If people actually learned to ignore spam, then spam wouldn't be such a profitable enterprise and would hopefully start to decrease.

Follow-up of breast cancer patients after their initial treatment is becoming "devalued and deregulated," according to a European study. Yet, the authors say that if follow-up was well designed, co-ordinated and made better use of community-based teams of doctors and nurses, then health authorities could make large financial savings that could be put towards giving patients better access to new and expensive adjuvant drugs as well as enabling them to see relevant hospital specialists more quickly.