Over the past 15 years, you have heard a lot in newspapers, magazines and on TV about the “fattening of America”, obesity and fatness among our kids, high blood pressure in adults, pre-diabetic conditions, “silent killers”, and how the cost of healthcare keeps increasing. Diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, skin cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer … all of these diseases can be detected and/or treated if we are made aware of health risk assessments, health screenings and the simple tests that are available.

Time has flown by as Get Screened America, founded in February 2009, completes its first year with great success stories.  But we're looking for more in 2010.  As a review of some of the accomplishments of 2009 and the high level goals for 2010, click below.

We are very pleased to offer this concept to help change healthcare in America, and are excited about continuing with a broader reach. Get Screened America is a healthcare program that is FREE to you and promotes the importance and awareness of you and your family members being tested and screened as a way to detect these "silent killers" while they are treatable. Devoted to healthcare education, Get Screened America is using motorsports – specifically NHRA – to highlight this awareness in simple language, on this website and at selected NHRA events. We want to de-mystify the screening process, and promote the importance of testing for disease states that can be so easily cured or treated if you get diagnosed early enough. Remember the key words … “get screened”.

While the whole disease “thing” can seem overwhelming, our experts have suggested that we start keying in on some of the diseases that are easiy to diagnose first. So … Get Screened America focuses on:

• Diabetes
• High Blood Pressure
• High Cholesterol
  
• COPD, or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Cancer
• Men's Health (coming soon)
  
• Woman's Health
• Ulcers
• Testing Schedule
  

Keep checking back … there’s more to come!

For more basic information on each disease, click on the “Diseases” button along the top or side menu bar.