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• Year in review: H1N1 swine flu, mammography, health care and the octomom are 4 of the top health stories. Name the 5th.

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 532
  Who can forget the moment they learned that the mother pregnant with octuplets was single and had six more kids at home, all very young? Or the moment when they learned that despite years of passionate and thoughtful Poll:  What was the biggest health story of 2009? ...
  2 days ago

• Mammograms

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 130
  Dr. P has the go-to post on the new mammography guidlines. Detailed and accessible, this is what you need to know in the wake of the US Preventive Services Task Force’s recent ill-worded guidlines. Unless you’ve been living on another planet, you know that in mid-November, the US Preventive Services Task ...
  3 days ago

• The Mammogram Debate: Whose Afraid of the Data?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  The newest guidelines on mammograms have stirred up intense debate. But very little of it is about the numbers. It’s almost entirely about emotions. Whether it is individual women who speak poignantly about their own cancers or irresponsible politicians who talk about “rationing” to score cheap political points. ...
  4 days ago

• Teresa Heinz, Battling Cancer, Supports Regular Mammograms

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 532
  Teresa Heinz, wife of the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry, is undergoing treatment for breast cancer and is urging younger women to continue getting regular mammograms despite recent federal guidelines recommending they get fewer of the cancer-detecting tests. read more
  6 days ago

• Teresa Heinz battling breast cancer

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  BOSTON (AP) - Teresa Heinz says she is being treated for breast cancer and will undergo a new form of radiation treatment next month. The 71-year-old wife of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is urging younger women to keep undergoing mammograms despite a federal panels recent recommendation to reduce the frequency of ...
  1 week ago

• Health 2009: A Year in Review

  
  FOX News Health Blog — Authority: 124
  Well, it’s time to bid adieu to 2009. It was an interesting year bringing us closer to the end of what some consider “the worst decade in American history.” From the historical inauguration of President Obama, to the most elaborate Ponzi scheme this country has seen, to the bailouts, failed stimulus packages, ...
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• Sen. John Kerry’s Wife Battling Breast Cancer

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  Teresa Heinz Kerry, revealing to the AP shes being treated for breast cancer, says younger women should continue having mammograms despite a federal panels recent recommendation to reduce the frequency of them. (Dec. 23)
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• Sen. John Kerry’s Wife Battling Breast Cancer

  
  enUws — Authority: 472
  Sen. John Kerrys Wife Battling Breast Cancer Teresa Heinz Kerry, revealing to the AP shes… %video$
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• Mammogram Madness!

  
  The Checkout Line — Authority: 124
  Dear Judy, In all, 5 friends of mine have been diagnosed with breast cancer. One died. We are all in our 50’s.  What do you think of  the way our government task force guidelines swept the importance of early detection under the rug? They basically said Hey no worries, under 50 you definitely don’t need a ...
  1 week ago

• State governments ration “free” cancer screenings

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 473
  When you empower government to provide “free” health care (paid by others through taxes), government gets to decide when it’s appropriate for you to receive it.  Here’s yet another example from the Associated Press : …low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting ...
  1 week ago

• Mammogram Debate Rages On and Splits Along Party Lines

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 480
  We all continue to be somewhat baffled over how often to get mammograms and whom to trust as the last word on this critical issue for women. Hey, we all want to grow up to be old women , right? Weeks after the release of the report on new recommendations for mammograms by the 16-member U.S. Preventative Task ...
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• CAT scans, mammograms: Be aware of the risks

  
  anilnetto.com — Authority: 126
  Just a little public service announcement regarding what they don’t usually tell you. Beware the cancer risk of CAT scans. Also read up on the raging debate sparked by a federally funded US task force of physicians which found that the benefits of regular mammography for women between 40 and 50 are outweighed by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Breast Cancer Screening Advice that Doesnt Make Sense

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  A few years ago, my family lost a friend who died from breast cancer at far too young an age. I also know someone who had breast cancer at a young age, but who has thrived with appropriate treatment. Why does one person die and another live? Whenever I think of these two friends, I wonder if the first woman could ...
  2 weeks ago

• Filibuster: Joe Lieberman Continues To Be A Jerk Of The First Order [Health Nuts]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 807
  In the grand tradition of cartoon villains Snidely Whiplash and Dick Dastardly , Joe Lieberman scored a blow to health reform by engaging in what Matt Yglesias describes as "the old double cross." Instead of just tying health care reform to the train tracks and letting nature take its course, Lieberman had ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Poor Are Turned Away For Cancer Screenings – But Let’s Be Sure to Pay Those Dividends

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 492
  I just posted about the 3 big companies in New York stating they “have to stand by” and pay their investors.  What kind of investors are they?  Greedy ones and what kind of insurance companies are these? Just even a portion of the millions they claim they have to pay would take care of a multitude of pap ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cancer guidelines anger survivors

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  The Detroit News Advocates slam proposals for later, fewer screenings Kim Kozlowski December 10, 2009 After a decade of breast self-examinations, Cathy Sullivan discovered a lump at age 40. Tests later confirmed she had breast cancer. Following surgery and treatment, Sullivan is now cancer-free. But she wonders ...
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• Senator Barbara Mikulski wants men to pay for women’s mammograms

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 436
  She doesn’t say it explicitly, but when Barbara Mikulski explains that her health care bill amendment would  “ guarantee women access to preventive health care screenings and care at no cost … [by requiring] all health plans to cover comprehensive women’s preventive care … with no copayments” it ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Mammogram Post-Mortem

  
  Science-Based Medicine — Authority: 128
  The Mammogram Post Mortem Steve Novella whimsically opined on a recent phone call that irrationality must convey a survival advantage for humans. I’m afraid he has a point. It’s much easier to scare people than to reassure them, and we have a difficult time with objectivity in the face of a good story. In fact, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sitting on the Other Side of the Table

  
  The Fabulous Geezersisters Weblog — Authority: 172
  I’m sitting in a restaurant in Dallas, having dinner with my old friend, Deanna.  I used to live here, from 1983 until 1997, and she hired me for a job at the public TV and radio stations.  We’ve been friends ever since. Tonight, we talking about — then not talking about — her upcoming lumpectomy, while ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sitting on the Other Side of the Table

  
  The Fabulous Geezersisters Weblog — Authority: 172
  I’m sitting in a restaurant in Dallas, having dinner with my old friend, Deanna.  I used to live here, from 1983 until 1997, and she hired me for a job at the public TV and radio stations.  We’ve been friends ever since. Tonight, we talking about — then not talking about — her upcoming lumpectomy, while ...
  3 weeks ago

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