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Posts Tagged breast cancer recommendations

Coming Soon: Senate Hearing on New Mammogram Guidelines

By | 11.24.09 | 3:02 pm

Following in the footsteps of House health care leaders, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, plans to hold a hearing on contentious new recommendations for screening breast cancer, Harkin’s office said this afternoon.

The senator has yet to announce a More…

Loud Calls for a Senate Hearing on New Mammogram Guidelines

By | 11.24.09 | 12:59 pm

A bipartisan group of 22 senators representing are calling on the leaders of the chamber’s health committee to examine the new breast cancer screening guidelines that have ignited a recent firestorm on and off Capitol Hill.

“These recommendations, which have been widely criticized by patients and doctors alike, More…