TASK DEFINITION: Given a paragraph, generate a claim that is supported by the given paragraph. 1) The claim must contain information from within the paragraph. 2) A sentence within the paragraph can be used as a claim. 3) The claim should not have contradictions within the paragraph. 4) The claim should be at most one sentence long.
PROBLEM: The cost of hormone replacement therapy is not in question. Of the 34,433 HRT users, 193 were diagnosed with colon cancer during the study period; that compared with 151 cases among the 13,778 women who had never used hormone replacement. HRT with either estrogen alone or a combination of estrogen and progestin was linked to a lower colon cancer risk even when the researchers accounted for the women's age, weight, exercise levels and race.

SOLUTION: Hormone replacement tied to lower colon cancer risk

PROBLEM: The World Health Organisation has urged countries to widen testing to contain the virus. Malaysia's tally of infections has jumped six-fold in just ten days to more than 1,500, exceeded only by China, South Korea and Japan in Asia. By the end of the week, Malaysia will double daily testing capacity to 7,000, before stepping that up to 16,500 by the first week of April, the official, Noor Hisham Abdullah, said. "We are preparing for the worst scenario, but hope for the best outcomes," Noor Hisham, the director general of Malaysia's health ministry, added in a text message late on Monday. "Once we have the capacity ready, we will scale up active case detection, testing, isolation and treatment." Ministry data shows Malaysia had done 17,923 tests by Monday, when the biggest daily increase of 212 new infections took the country's total to 1,518. That works out to about 560 tests per million people, fewer than neighboring Singapore's 4,500 tests per million, according to the city-state's most recent data, but well above Indonesia's single-digit figures. Malaysia has recorded at least 14 virus deaths. It has linked nearly two-thirds of its infections to a religious gathering last month near the capital, Kuala Lumpur, that the government says drew more than 16,000 people. The event is also linked to more than 100 cases across Southeast Asia. On Monday, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said Malaysia may extend beyond the end of the month travel and movement curbs imposed to contain the spread of the virus. [nL4N2BG1XK]

SOLUTION: Malaysia steps up coronavirus tests as it braces for 'worst scenario'.

PROBLEM: The story didn't discuss costs. And cost is a significant issue here. The AP story, by comparison, reported that "colonoscopy costs vary widely but typically exceed $1,000." Adequate. The story said that almost 24% of Medicare enrollees in the study were re-examined within seven years "with no clear indication for the early repeated examination." One of the weak points in this story and in many of the stories we saw on this study, frankly was that, while harms or complications were mentioned, they were not defined nor quantified. What harms? And how often do they occur? This story had a quote that "I don't think we've educated [people] well enough" about the possible risks but the story itself didn't do so. The AP story, by comparison, at least mentioned "risks that occur more often with older patients, including complications from sedation, accidental performation of the colon and bleeding." Adequate job. Nice touch commenting on the geographic variations seen in the Medicare analysis as well. The focus of this story was the opposite of disease-mongering. The story used an American Cancer Society spokesman as an independent source. In the last line, the story at least mentioned other approaches to colon cancer screening. The availability of colonoscopies is not in question. The relative novelty of this study was made clear in the story. It's clear that the story did not rely solely on a news release.

SOLUTION:
Significant Number of Medicare Patients Getting Too-Frequent Colonoscopies