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Addiction, Recovery, And American Health Policy

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Health Economics, Breast Cancer, Breast Screening Panel, Breast Cancer Screening, Alcoholism, Addiction & Recovery, Living News
Stanton Peele

America worships personal tales of redemption. If public figures are caught out drunk or on drugs, cheating on their wives, then they quickly head off to Betty Ford or Hazelden. And we forgive them.

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Stop Worrying, It May Cost You Your Mammogram!

Rebecca Booth, MD | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Mammograms, Breast Cancer, Cancer Prevention, United-States-Preventive-Services-Task-Force, Women's Health, Health, Living News
Rebecca Booth, MD

Now we may have to say to patients, stop checking your breasts or you may begin to suffer from the current epidemic syndrome: "Breast Cancer Worry."

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What Ails Black Women, Part 2: Health and Life

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Black Women, Women, Michelle Obama, Smoking, Washington DC, Obesity, African Americans, Infant Mortality, Inequality, Breast Cancer, Health, Living News
Philip N. Cohen

Even controlling for income, education, obesity, smoking, and some diseases, Black infant mortality is significantly higher. This presumably indicates worse healthcare.

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The Future Of Breast Cancer Diagnosis Is Touch

Jae Son | Posted 11.24.2009 | Technology

Read More: Mammograms, Breast Cancer, Mammogram Guidelines, Technology News
Jae Son

At the heart of the mammogram controvery, the real issue is that new screening methods need to be established and supported, since our current system is risky, costly and just isn't working.

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Give Thanks To Kathleen Sebelius For Saving 47,000 Women From Death By Cost-Benefit Analysis

George Lakoff | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Kathleen Sebelius, Mammograms, Breast Cancer, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Mammogram Guidelines, Living News
George Lakoff

When arithmetic is added to mammogram statistics, it yields a clear case of a low probability event with major life-and-death consequences for tens of thousands of people.

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Healthy Lifestyles Neglected In Favor Of Pharmaceuticals

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: New York Times, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Breast Cancer, Gina Kolata, Prostate Cancer, Dr-Neal-Barnard, Dr. Dean Ornish, Health, Living News
Christina Pirello

With all we know about nutrition's impact on health, to remotely hint that eating a healthy diet and exercising has little if any impact on reducing our risk of disease is irresponsible at best.

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The Secret History Of Mammography

Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Public Health Care, Breast Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Breast Cancer Screenings, Prevention, Mammogram, Health, Living News
Devra Davis, Ph.D.

Mammography is one of the most oversold and understudied technologies in medical history. To continue to assert that mammography will save lives flies in the face of huge numbers of studies on the topic.

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Hormone Therapy: Synthetic Progestins Are Not The Same As Progesterone

Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Todd Tiahrt, Breast Cancer, Hormones, Progesterone, Women's Health, Christiane Northrup, Hormone Therapy, Progestins, Health, Living News
Christiane Northrup, MD

Synthetic progestins are not the same as progesterone, and reporting on them as if they confer the same risks and benefits is absurd.

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The Cancer Vixen Mission: No Breast Left Behind

Marisa Acocella Marchetto | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care, Breast Cancer, Women's Health, Health, Mammograms, Cancer, Breast Cancer Treatment, Mammogram Guidelines, Breast Cancer Awareness, Living News
Marisa Acocella Marchetto

If you don't test yourself until you're 50 - then you risk receiving a later diagnosis, which could lead to death. To be blunt: it could kill you.

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Mammography: A Not-So-Fatalistic View

Dr. Elaine Schattner | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Mammography, Breast Cancer, Health, Women's Health, Mammograms, Cancer, Elaine Schattner, Mammogram, Wellness, Living News
Dr. Elaine Schattner

In my view, the press is getting and giving the wrong message on mammography. There are significant flaws in recent analyses that have escaped most headlines.

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The Great Mammography Debate: "Peace of Mind" Or "Power Of Me?" What Kind Of Person Are You?

Mehmet Oz, M.D. | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Mammograms, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Health, Mammogram Recommendations, Mammogram Guidelines, Living News
Mehmet Oz, M.D.

The new task force recommendations on mammograms are not a blanket, one-size-fits-all prescription for every woman. Guidelines should never replace a dialogue with your own doctor that considers individual risk.

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Dead Moms Everywhere -- That's What Postponing Mammograms Means

Jenny Block | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Susan G Komen, Mammography, Insurance, Breast Cancer, 3-Day, Mammograms, Breasts, Cancer, Mammogram Guidelines, Health, Living News
Jenny Block

My mother would be dead. There's nothing complicated about it. She would be dead if she had not gone in to have her routine mammogram at age 45.

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What Happens When The Anger Subsides? -- The New Breast Cancer Guidelines

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Breast Self-Examination, Breast Cancer, Health Communication, Medical Research, New-Task-Force-Guidelines-on-Breast-Cancer-Screening, Breast Cancer Awareness, Living News
Kathleen Reardon

Despite the additional explanations added and attempts at clarification of the new breast cancer guidelines, the women I meet with breast cancer and those who haven't had it are still angry.

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Doctors Answer Mammogram Concerns

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Memorial Sloan-Kettering, David Dershaw, NYU Langone Medical Center, Breast Cancer, CBS News, Mammograms, Freya Schnable, Cbs, Mammogram Guidelines, Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

In light of the new breast cancer screening guidelines, I asked two experts on the front lines of patient care to join me in a live webcast to provide some perspective.

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Trying to Put Genie Back in the Bottle

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Antiaging-Medicine, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Health Care, Mammogram Guidelines, Mammography, Politics News
Philip Lee Miller

The current uproar regarding the task force recommendations on breast cancer screening highlights how guidelines have a tendency to insinuate themselves into the fabric of bureaucratic mandates.

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Sebelius: Women should get mammograms by age 40

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: American Cancer Society Mammograms, Mammograms Breast Cancer, Mammogram Age, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Breast Cancer, u.s. Preventive Services Task Force, Sebelius Mammograms, Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services, Health, Living News

WASHINGTON — Women should continue getting regular mammograms starting at age 40, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wed...

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Hospital Gets Down In "Pink Glove Dance" For Breast Cancer Awareness

Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: Breast Cancer, Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, Breast Cancer Awareness, Pink Glove Dance, Pink Glove Video, Providence Pink Glove Dance, Impact News

There are lots of ways people decide to promote awareness of breast cancer: by wearing little ribbon pins, buying sponsored pink products, doing a run...

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A Mammogram DIDN'T Save My Life

Lauren Cahn | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Exam, Mammograms, Breast Cancer, Lauren Cahn, Mammogram Guidelines, Insurance Coverage, Health, Living News
Lauren Cahn

At 35, I had my first mammogram. It was clean as a whistle. At 36, I was diagnosed with three cancerous tumors in my right breast, two of which were larger than 2.5 centimeters.

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Cancer Wins The Powerball

Trish Kinney | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Mammograms, Breast Cancer, New Task Force Guidelines on Breast Cancer Screening, Powerball, Health, Living News
Trish Kinney

I was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in my right breast at age 42. Considering that the task force suggested that breast self-exam is worthless, I wonder, how are we supposed to achieve early detection?

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Beyond the Headlines and Under the Bra

Jennifer Manfrè | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Mammograms, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Prevention, Breast Cancer Treatment, Living News
Jennifer Manfrè

The new mammogram recommendation is what cost control looks like: It's not rationing, it's not socialized medicine, it's cost control. What are the real outcomes, and what are the real costs? Do the math.

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Take Two Studies And Call Them In The Morning

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Annals of Internal Medicine, American Cancer Society, Cancer Screening, Breast Cancer, Breast Exams, Diagnostic Tests, Mammograms, Health Guidelines, Health and Human Services, Medicine, Health Care, Preventive Services Task Force, Health, Living News
Rick Horowitz

If you've been eating plenty of this and that because we kept proclaiming that this and that are good for you, you might want to scale back a bit.

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Women Should Not Examine Their Breasts For Lumps

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Breast Self-Examination, American Cancer Society, Women's Health, Childhood Vaccinations, Addiction, Legalizing Drugs, Breast Cancer, Disease of Addiction, United-States-Preventive-Services-Task, Living News
Stanton Peele

All of this reverses years of well-intended advice and public health information, proving once again that health information and advice is a matter of competing social and political forces.

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I'd Be Dead By Now -- The New Breast Cancer Guidelines

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Breast Cancer Research, Breast Self-Examination, Ymca, Research, Breast Cancer, Livestrong, Living News
Kathleen Reardon

I'd be dead by now if it weren't for breast self-examination. If breast self-exam gives you greater peace of mind, no set of guidelines should deter you from it.

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Mammogram Age Pushed Back To 50

AP | RONI CARYN RABIN | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, When Should You Get a Mammogram, Mammogram Age, At What Age Should I Get a Mammogram, Women's Health, Health, Mammograms, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Breast Cancer Treatment, Health Care, Breast Cancer Awareness, Mammogram Ages, Mammogram Guidelines, Living News

NEW YORK (AP)- Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. ...

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Trista Joy Lathern, 24-year-old Texan, Accused Of Faking Breast Cancer For Implants

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Breast Augmentation, Plastic Surgery, Faking Cancer, James Pack, Breast Cancer, Breast Implants, Trista Joy Lathern, McLennan County, Home News

WACO, Texas — Authorities say a Texas woman lied about having breast cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit to have her breasts enlarged. ...

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