Three-quarters of US women disagree with a high-level panel's recommendations to raise the age of breast cancer screening and even more plan to ...
Hows this for timing? Here was Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, ready to unveil his long-awaited Senate health care bill a bill that, ...
Lawmakers argue whether mammogram guidelines show what's wrong with health care overhaul Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay ...
Democratic congresswoman says mammograms won't be excluded in health care overhaul A Democratic lawmaker who has been treated for breast cancer says worries that the proposed health care overhaul would limit cancer screenings are overblown. The lawmaker, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz ...
Former NIH chief advises women to ignore new mammogram guideline, says it will lead to deaths The former director of the National Institutes of Health is advising women to ignore new guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast ...
Graphic shows percentage of women 40 years and older having a mammogram by race and cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates per 100,000 population Copyright 2009 AP News
GOP: Recommendations for fewer women's health tests could mean rationed health care under bill Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Morticians who use formaldehyde to embalm bodies have a higher risk of leukemia, researchers reported on Friday. They found deaths from one particular kind of leukemia, myeloid leukemia, increased the longer the workers were involved with embalming. Their study ...
Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer. ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eating fruits and vegetables, and drinking tea and red wine may offer overweight men and normal weight women some protection from colon and rectal cancers, hint study findings from the Netherlands. Plant-based foods contain flavonoids, compounds thought ...
Guidelines say less frequent Paps OK to detect cervical cancer - every 2 years for under-30 First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears. New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their ...
Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, the leading US group of women's health care professionals said Friday, also recommending less frequent subsequent tests. Pushing back the age of the first screening would help avoid giving teen ...
