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• Changed cervical cancer screening guidelines scare and confuse women

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 695
  Filed under: Health Its been a tough month to be a women wondering how to preserve her health. First, the American Cancer Society flip-flopped on its previous stance and said screening for some cancers might not be necessary . Then in a landmark move, a government panel issued its guidelines for mammograms, ...
  15 hours ago

• What is the Value of a Woman’s Life? by Pat Bertroche

  
  Iowa Defense Alliance — Authority: 119
  What is the Value of a Woman’s Life? By J. Patrick Bertroche , D.O. When the US Preventive Services Task Force, released the new breast screening recommendations yesterday, it ignited a firestorm of debate within the medical community and the nation. To recap what the recommendations are, I will briefly go through ...
  1 day ago

• ObamaCare Won’t Work as Promised: Here’s the Proof

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  The controversy surrounding the recent mammography guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is a recommendation for swift and decisive defeat of efforts to expand federal oversight of health care.  It almost seems as if this was designed as a laboratory experiment to learn exactly what will happen ...
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• The best mammogram advice I’ve heard

  
  Chatelaine — Authority: 144
  Last week, the United States Preventive Services Task Force released new mammogram recommendations  for American women. While nothing has changed here in Canada – in fact, the new U.S. recommendations mirror the Canadian Cancer Society’s current guidelines (clinical breast exams at least every two years for ...
  3 days ago

• Medical Services | Womens Wellness Clinc | Mondeor

  
  Search Engine South Africa — Authority: 152
  The Womens Wellness Clinic can provide advice on cervial smears, menopause and gynaecological problems and is dedicated to enhancing women’s lives through early detection of breast cancer for instance. They do this by using the most advanced technology . Womens Wellness Clinic is dedicated to providing ultra ...
  4 days ago

• To Mammogram…Or Not

  
  Agriculture Society — Authority: 113
  Indeed, cancer is a scary thing. For as long as I can remember, women have been advised to start getting mammograms over the age of 40 as part of a preventative program for reducing the risk of breast cancer and/or detecting it early enough to be able to go on the appropriate program to be able to remove it should it ...
  5 days ago

• Follow the Money: Whos Screaming Loudest about Mammogram Guidelines?

  
  Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma — Authority: 464
  Thanks again to Marilyn Manns tip, I am pleased to recommend a post by our PharmedOut friends, Adriane Fugh-Berman and Alice Bell: http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=4194 This well-crafted post starts out by analyzing the recent mammogram recommendations from the US Preventive Services ...
  5 days ago

• What’s Best for Our Breasts?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 511
  OK, I’m jumping into this controversy about screening for breast cancer (mammograms, self exams, and the under- versus over-50 issue) a week late, but not because I haven’t been following the stories.  It’s kind of hard to know how to talk about one’s breasts when one has the perspectives of both an economist ...
  6 days ago

• Cancer industry abandons science to keep pushing mammograms that harm women

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 141
  Natural News Monday, November 23, 2009 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger The cancer industry has blatantly abandoned science these past two weeks by insisting women under 50 should receive annual mammograms even though the industry’s own scientific task force concluded that such screenings result in too many false ...
  6 days ago

• 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% 
  6 days ago

• Mammograms for 40-Year-Olds or BUST!

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 543
  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
  6 days ago

• To Your Health—and Mine

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 703
  By Eugene Robinson The uproar over mammogram guidelines is proof that health care reform that actually controls costs would be virtually impossible to achieve. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 23, 2009 For 23 Years, Fully Aware but Mute and Paralyzed November 23, 2009 Lieberman Won’t ...
  1 week ago

• Senator Barrasso: This Type of Legislation Would Have Cost My Wife Her Life

  
  Purple People Vote — Authority: 413
  Senator Barrasso brings an interesting perspective to the health care debate as doctor/orthopedic surgeon. However, it is his experience as the husband of a breast cancer survivor that provided one of the most compelling moments of last Saturday’s health care debate from the Senate floor.   Senator McCain ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Reaction To Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 543
  How often do you get a breast self-exam, and how often should you get your routine mammograms? Since the U.S. Preventive Services task force’s early detection against breast cancer recommendations came out, those are the two biggest questions in women’s health. read more
  1 week ago

• Women’s health comes out a loser in the House [not mammograms, not paps, free abortions]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  UW-Madison Professor Alta Charo was right -- women’s health would be sacrificed for overall health care reform. Charo, a faculty member of the university’s Law School and a senior adviser to the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, predicted in an October speech to Planned Parenthood here that the ...
  1 week ago

• A Letter About the Importance of Mammograms - by Amy Kitchens

  
  A Diary Left Open — Authority: 128
  Good morning ladies, I am sure you have heard the latest buzz in health care that you do not need a mammogram so soon/often. Well I am here to enlighten everyone. I was diagnosed at 40 years old and two months with breast cancer. I have NO family history (I am it) and I do not possess the gene(s) for ...
  1 week ago

• Prof: Mammogram debate is data vs. anecdotes

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 476
  When it comes to the recent news that a government task force opposes routine mammograms for women under 50, the public must balance research with anecdotal evidence, according to a professor who studies how breast cancer is portrayed in the media. Cynthia Ryan, Ph.D., an associate professor of English at the ...
  1 week ago

• More on Mammograms and 40-something Women

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 132
  The New York Times has a really excellent article on the whole mammogram debate. It goes into the whole "over-diagnosis" issue, which I find fascinating. Scary, but fascinating.  Because I still remember the scary early days when I was told I had DCIS, and no one could tell me whether or not it was harmful and ...
  1 week ago

• Stop Targeting Women

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 125
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• We Can’t Just Ignore It: Democrat Bill WILL Ration Your Health Care

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 475
  Mammograms – or the lack of them – are all the buzz right now. They are serving as warning shots of the massive health care rationing to come if the Democrat health plan becomes law. The former head of the National Institute of Health says that women should very forcefully ignore the recommendations of the Obama ...
  1 week ago

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