Just when you thought breast cancer screening couldn’t get any more confusing, two national medical groups issued new mammogram guidelines Monday recommending that women begin routine screenings at age 40. Issued by the Society of Breast Imaging and the American College of Radiology, the guidelines contradict controversial recommendations More…
They came from Colorado and Arizona, the two leaders of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, summoned to Washington Wednesday to explain the panel’s contentious new recommendations on breast cancer screenings. But Chairman Ned Calonge and Vice Chair Diana Petitti might have been surprised to discover that lawmakers were much More…
Moments ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tried to set up a series of Wednesday afternoon votes on the first four amendments to the upper-chamber’s health reform legislation — two from Democrats and two from Republicans.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) objected, arguing that a number of Republicans More…
One of the biggest fears surrounding contentious new breast-cancer screening guidelines, which were unveiled last month by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, was that private insurers would use them as justification for scaling back coverage of routine mammograms. Now Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) is pushing More…
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…
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