Topic: Mammography
AP News | 2009-12-03 22:37:43
<div id="subtitle">Senate keeps Medicare cuts, adopts measure to safeguards mammograms, preventive tests</div><div><p>Casting its first votes on revamping the nation's health care system, the Senate rejected a Republican bid Thursday to stave off Medicare cuts and approved safeguards for coverage of mammograms and other preventive tests ...
AP News | 2009-12-03 21:44:00
<div id="subtitle">Senate keeps Medicare cuts and adopts measure to safeguard mammograms in health care bill</div><div><p>Casting its first votes on revamping the nation's health care system, the Senate rejected a Republican bid Thursday to stave off Medicare cuts and approved safeguards for coverage of mammograms and ...
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 ...
Reuters US Online Report Domestic News | 2009-12-02 22:29:58
<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans argued on Wednesday that recommendations advising against routine mammograms for women in their 40s could be used to ration healthcare under reform legislation before Congress, a charge Democrats denied.</p><p>The guidelines, issued on November 16 by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a federal ...
