Topic: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-22 19:18:25
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Some U.S. states have begun using controversial new breast cancer screening guidelines to stop offering routine mammograms for uninsured women in their 40s, a survey by the Avon Foundation for Women released on Monday found. The Avon survey of more than 150 breast cancer health educators and providers from 48 states and Washington, D.C. found a ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-01-18 21:20:39
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors should screen children and teens between 6 and 18 years for extra pounds, a federal task force recommends.</p><p>For children who are found to be obese based on their body mass index (BMI), a standard measure of the relationship between height and weight ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-03 00:10:14
<div><p>The heads of a high-level US medical panel acknowledged Wednesday they "fumbled the message" about when women should begin having routine screening mamograms in a controversial report last month.</p><p>"We communicated very poorly," Diana Petitti, vice chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), said during an ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-11-24 23:10:17
<div><p>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 ignore the guidelines, a poll showed Tuesday.</p><p>Of 1,136 women aged 35 and 75 interviewed over three days last week, 76 percent disagreed ...
