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• Case Studies Offer Inside Look At Effective Ways To Address Global Health Challenges

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Meaningful and lasting progress in addressing global health challenges cannot be achieved without partnerships and collaboration, according to a publication released, Case Studies for Global Health.
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• Loud Calls for a Senate Hearing on New Mammogram Recommendations

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  A bipartisan group of 22 senators representing are calling on the leaders of the chamber’s health committee to examine the new breast cancer screening guidelines that have ignited a recent firestorm on and off Capitol Hill. “These recommendations, which have been widely criticized by patients and doctors alike, ...
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• Poll: 76% women DISAGREE with mammogram guidelines

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 489
  November 24, 2009USA TODAY GALLUP Poll (+/- 4)What is your opinion of the new mammogram guidelines?Strongly agree 5%Agree 17%Disagree 29%Strongly Disagree 47%No opinion 2% 
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• A Breast Surgeon’s Comment On Those Breast Cancer Guidelines

  
  Women's Voices For Change — Authority: 512
  As a practicing breast surgeon and member of the Medical Advisory Board of Women’s Voices for Change, I was asked to review  the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)’s recommendation [...]
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• NBC’s Dr. Nancy Defends Doctors in Breast Cancer Debate: “We are on the verge of becoming a scientifically illiterate country”

  
  2parse — Authority: 129
  One of the main competitions in our politics, aside from the liberal versus right-wing, and the establishment versus anti-establishment, is the the competition between technocrats and idiocrats. While technocrats may be ascendant in Obama’s Washington, as policy wonks and experts attempt to solve intractable ...
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• Reid: No Connection Between Mammogram Recommendations and Dems’ Health Reforms

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  In a  statement released Sunday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) became the latest Democrat to try to divorce the party’s health reform bills from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which issued controversial new guidelines last week for breast cancer screening. Let’s be clear: the ...
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• Stop Targeting Women

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  The following post represents my personal opinion and not that of any groups or organizations with which I am affiliated. Okay, it’s enough already! Why is it that women are always the target? First it’s abortions, then mammograms, pap smears following closely, behind and now cosmetic surgery (although that’s ...
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• Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself!

  
  Mad Boastings of a Cheapskate Mom — Authority: 126
  Its hard to ignore the latest advice from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. You cant turn on the tv or radio without hearing someone talking about their recommendations on mammograms. In case you have been living under a rock for the past week, basically this Preventive Services Task Force (WTH kind of name is ...
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• Carly Fiorina slams new mammogram guidelines

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New York, Nov 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The California Senate candidate and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is slamming the new mammogram guidelines. She says that, “the new breast cancer advice defies common sense.”Carly Fiorina learned she had breast cancer in February 2008 and then she underwent surgery in March. When ...
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• New breast cancer screening guide will disproportionately hurt black and Hispanic women

  
  "600 words by Esther J. Cepeda" — Authority: 116
  New breast cancer screening guide will disproportionately hurt black and Hispanic women   http://www.suntimes.com/news/cepeda/1899099,CST-EDT-esther23.article November 23, 2009 BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA The damage has been done. Hours and hours of door-to-door, woman-to-woman outreach into high risk, ...
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• Flushing Out Tax Cheats

  
  IRS Tax Problem Solver Blog - IRS Help — Authority: 130
  Tax evaders who use offshore bank accounts to stash their cash mainly use about 90 countries to do so. The most famous one is Switzerland with its famed Swiss bank secrecy laws that have sheltered tax cheats for decades. But with the recent watershed settlement between the IRS and UBS bank of Switzerland that will ...
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• Mammography is Imperfect But Essential, and New Guidelines Foolish

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
  by Bonnie Reichman, M.D. (The piece below is second in a series of responses by WVFCs Medical Advisory Board to the new screening guidelines for breast and cervical cancer issued last week. Check back later for word from Dr. Elizabeth Poynor on cervical cancer screening and from Dr. Allen on the ...
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• so last week .05

  
  jamYe waXman. seX matters. — Authority: 117
  Boobs make boob recommendations. Vampire sex is kinky, and stir some perky into your relationship for added good times. The United States Preventive Services Task Force is trying to cut costs on your health. Their new breast cancer screening guidelines are the so f-cked up I can’t even believe they would print ...
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• Highlighting Racial Disparities Increases Coverage And Effectiveness Of Health News

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Effective communication of health news is needed to raise awareness and encourage behavior changes in populations who experience health disparities, or inequalities in health status, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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• Additional research is thus needed to determine how university tobacco control policies and preventive education programs affect college students’ smoking behaviors. After you followed the aforementioned recipe, you are now ready to submit your appl

  
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• No Mammograms Before 50? Really?

  
  ModernMami.com — Authority: 457
  Last week a government task force said that the majority of women don’t need mammograms until the age of 50 . On top of that, they also said that breast self-exams are unnecessary . Since then, I’ve been thinking about this over and over. I just can’t wrap my head around it. Don’t we hear about many women ...
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• Behind Cancer Guidelines, Quest for Data

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Dr. Heidi D. Nelson led a team of researchers in Oregon whose work was a basis for new guidelines on breast cancer screening.
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• On Scientists v. Politicians on Mammograms

  
  Out on a Lim — Authority: 107
  Last week, the United States Preventive Services Task Force, a government-appointed group of 16 outside experts recommended that women should undergo routine mammograms only after the age of 50 and not 40, against the advice of the American Cancer Society and consistent with the recommendations of the American College ...
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• My Mammogram Story

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
  by Shelley Singer I am in a high-risk category for breast cancer. My mother has had it twice. I am 59 and have been having mammograms since I was 40. I examine myself (none too thoroughly) and have manual breast exams every three months. I took Tamoxifen for five years, prophylactically, after research and ...
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• Cartoon Of The Day

  
  Evaluation — Authority: 144
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