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Here’s One Way to Cut Health Care Costs

By | 11.16.09 | 6:29 pm

Women should screen for breast cancer less frequently and at a later age, according to new recommendations issued Monday by a well-respected preventative medicine panel.

The United States Preventive Services Task Force, which in 2002 recommended that women begin getting mammograms at age 40, now says 50 is the more More…