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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 ...
  1 week ago

• The Mammogram Panic, or, False Positives Are No Picnic

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 649
  Inhale through your nose (be sure your abdomen moves, not just your chest). Exhale through your mouth. Slowly, now … OK, let’s talk about the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s recommendation that women begin getting mammograms at age 50 instead of 40,…
  1 week ago

• Firestorm follows US panel’s ruling on mammograms

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 19 (DPA) The US government moved Wednesday to quell a rising fury over the findings of an official panel that mammograms were no longer necessary for women in their 40s and that older women should have fewer tests for breast cancer.US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius indicated ...
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• The Mammogram Wars

  
  Yo Mama For Obama — Authority: 124
  The U. S. Preventive Services Task Force came out this week with new recommendations for women and mammography.  Their new guidelines call for mammograms to be initiated at age fifty (versus age forty), to be repeated every two years (versus every year) and state that breast self-examination is of dubious value.  ...
  1 week ago

• New breast cancer screening guidelines confuse women as experts disagree

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Healthcare If the experts cant agree on guidelines for breast cancer screening, then how are women supposed to decide? At the end of the day, the new guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of independent experts, have left women quite confused. Several other expert sources, ...
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• Just a thought for all of you on “government” healthcare this a.m.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Catch all the news stories on the “government” panel “recommending” that mammograms NOT be given until age 50 - now at age 40, the “big” concerns are “false” positives and unnecessary stress and biopsies. Meanwhile, although not perfect, 15% of all cases are caught with this method. And as with all ...
  1 week ago

• Look at this there’s this antispyware making a 100%

  
  Techtoucian.net — Authority: 156
  Look at this, there’s this antispyware making a 100% spyware removal claim! Basically, decided to try out this program. After the commencing SpyZooka download installation, the program continues to scan the system for any spyware threats and displays scanning results in a results tab. While the ease of use may ...
  2 weeks ago

• Transparency like you’ve never seen before

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Today marks a major milestone in government transparency -- and an important lesson in the unintended consequences of such vigorous disclosure.....A lot of people visit the White House, up to 100,000 each month, with many of those folks coming to tour the buildings. Given this large amount of data, the records we are ...
  4 weeks ago

• Obama White House visitor logs feature famous names

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Oct.31 (ANI): White House visitor logs just released show that Oprah Winfrey, Michael Moore, Michael Jordan, Serena Williams, Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers have all visited the President’s home since Barack Obama took office. Some are, in fact, the well-known celebrities. But the others just share ...
  4 weeks ago

• False Positives: A Round of Applause…

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 569
  The anti-malware industry isnt a suitable environment for the thin-skinned. We get used to receiving "more kicks than hapence" (see http://www.virusbtn.com/spambulletin/archive/2006/11/vb200611-OK ).. In particular, Ive grown accustomed to the fact that many people expect all the following from an AV product: ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bayesian Filter: Technology And Advantages

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 161
  Not a long time ago, most anti-spam products simply used a list of keywords to identify spam. A good set of keywords could catch much spam. However, a keyword-based anti-spam filter requires manual updating and can be easily fooled by tweaking the message a little. Spammers simply examine the latest anti-spam ...
  4 weeks ago

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