Thursday, November 19, 2009

New recommendation to hold off on mammograms



The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that women wait until age 50 to begin getting biennial mammograms as opposed to yearly testing. This has the violently acerbic taste of insurance companies tightening down on covering mammograms for women under age 50. Surely, this recommendation does not claim to protect the women who would be dead if they had waited until age 50 to get a mammogram, but let's just see how far this recommendation goes.

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