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Wednesday, 10/21/2009 1:39:17 PM

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:39:17 PM

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Hello, lurker turned poster here. I found an interesting article on my local paper's website (mercury news) that definitely relates to HDVY. I could not/still can't believe the confluence of events recently, and this article just about blew my mind, as HDC is actively involved in "fixing" this problem of expensive prostate tests/the unwanted operations that are performed because of them.

I am new to this stock, but not the industry as a whole. I currently have 150k shares at an average 0.22/share. I am definitely long on this on and have no real plans of flipping for profit, as the potential on this silent sleeper is TRULY KILLER.

Here is the article link:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13604732?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1

Here are some excerpts:

"A startling new analysis concludes that routine screenings for breast and prostate cancer miss the most deadly forms of the disease — and may expose healthy patients to risky, expensive and needless treatments.

The nation's long-standing "War on Cancer" is built on the assumption that early and widespread cancer screening saves lives. The new assessment, published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, takes a tough look at whether modern medicine has overpromised its benefits..."

and

"In the new analysis, the researchers looked at cancer statistics during the past 20 years of extensive screening for these two kinds of cancer. If screening helped, they surmised, there would be an increase in the rate of early disease but then a decrease in invasive disease. But reality did not match this scenario: the numbers of more advanced cases of disease have not decreased nearly as much as expected for breast or prostate cancer.

More than $20 billion is spent annually on screening for the two diseases. About 75 percent of men have had a routine prostate-specific antigen test..."