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• Terrorized By The ‘War On Cancer’

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 553
  How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America’s Ability To Make Sound Healthcare Decisions with apologies to Zbigniew Brzezinski In his original article about the war on terror Brzezinsky argues that the use of the term War on Terror was intended to generate a culture of fear deliberately because it ...
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• I Just Want to Testify (about my alcoholism)

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  American health care policies are driven by personal testimony rather than by science.  In the case of alcoholism, such testimony is invariably from alcoholics who have recovered through AA.  There are many, many such people.  But they are still a tiny minority of those who experience alcohol problems, including ...
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• Loud Calls for a Senate Hearing on New Mammogram Recommendations

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  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: 150
  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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• Mammograms for 40-Year-Olds or BUST!

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  Judy, Debbie, Kathy, Barb and Sarah. All these women are close friends of mine. All these women were diagnosed with breast cancer under age 50. read more
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• Women Should Ignore New Mammogram Guideline, Ex-NIH Chief Says

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  MONDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) -- The fallout from last weeks controversial recommendation that women delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer continues, with a former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health advising women to ignore the guidelines. Image:  ...
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• Is it just me.....

  
  It's Not All Gravy — Authority: 125
  ...or are there other women out there that wish the media would stop showing pictures of women getting mammograms any time there is a story about breast cancer? Last Saturday The Dallas Morning News had a story about the controversy over the new guidelines for when women should start having mammograms and how often ...
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• New breast cancer screening guide will disproportionately hurt black and Hispanic women

  
  "600 words by Esther J. Cepeda" — Authority: 114
  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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• Breast Cancer Guidelines Become New ‘Death Panel’ Scare

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 799
  We reported last week that a government panel issued controversial new breast cancer screening guidelines, and predicted that the very real concerns they present would be twisted to raise concerns about the House health care reform bill .  Our prediction played out on Sunday’s This Week with George ...
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• so last week .05

  
  jamYe waXman. seX matters. — Authority: 119
  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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• Mammogram Screening For Breast Cancer: Guidelines May Change After Task Force Recommendations

  
  The Breast Cancer Reconstruction Blog — Authority: 104
  The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a government-appointed expert panel, recently made new recommendations for mammogram screening for breast cancer: Women between 40 and 49 years old should not be having routine screening mammograms.  Instead, they say that women should make an informed decision ...
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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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• Dems’ Health Bills Would Adopt New Mammogram Guidelines

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 747
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (WDCpix) The Democrats downplaying the gravity of new recommendations for breast cancer screening have left out an inconvenient fact: their health care bills would automatically adopt them. Both the House and Senate health reform proposals would ...
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• New Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Screening, Too

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  Well, it’s been an interesting week for women’s health issues: earlier this week Giulia noted that a panel is recommending fewer mammograms and starting later, and now, new guidelines are suggesting that women start getting screened for cervical cancer later in life, and that Pap smears are not needed every ...
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• Wasserman Schultz: New Mammogram Guidelines ‘Causing Mass Confusion’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), a breast-cancer survivor, has been busy on the news shows this week, attacking the new guideline that women seek routine mammograms later in life. Last night, she was at it again, telling MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that it’s “totally inappropriate” for a panel without ...
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• A Step Backward in the Fight Against Breast Cancer.

  
  American Elephants — Authority: 136
  The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force tossed out long-time guidelines for breast cancer screening, and has caused a well-deserved uproar.  This should alert anyone paying attention as a preview of the coming political decisions about cost-control and medical treatment that are central to ObamaCare.In 1983, the ...
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• New breast exam guidelines gaslight women out of life-saving health practices

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 727
  The story of Stephanie Spielman, wife of Ohio State University and NFL star Chris Spielman , mother of four children, who was a 30 year old woman 12 years ago who gave herself a self-breast exam and discovered a lump that she then had examined and screened, died of breast cancer today at age 42. Her story represents ...
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• Dennis Prager Says New Mammogram Guidelines Are A Taste Of Obamacare

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 145
  Dennis Prager opened his radio show today: "This latest announcement that women should not get mammograms until they are 50 is a telling statement of what is in store for you if the House and Senate bills are paid. "Do you know how many women get cancer who are under 50? Did you know that breast cancer is a more ...
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• The Folly of Limited Screening for Breast Cancer

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
  by the Medical Advisory Board of Womens Voices For Change introduction by Dr. Elizabeth Poyner On Monday evening, the way that we are supposed to recommend breast cancer screening to women was radically shaken to the core and has left many physicians and their patients angered and confused. Mammograms ...
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• Who decides on mammograms? Inside task force

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  Breast cancer surgeons, cancer organizations and even the White House are expressing concern about new screening recommendations. read more
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