Breast Cancer Screenings

Queens Lags Behind the Nation in Late-Stage Breast Cancer detection

Omar Kasrawi | Posted 12.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Jamaica Queens, Breast Cancer, Queens Cancer Center, Breast Cancer Screenings, Rochdale Village, Outdoor Exercise, Exercise, Healthlink, New York News
Omar Kasrawi

A grassroots effort called HealthLink is mobilizing breast cancer survivors to reach out in laundry rooms and libraries across the borough to screen women in time.

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Poor Women in California Can Expect a Lump of Coal From the Government This Holiday Season

Pedro Nava | Posted 12.18.2009 | Los Angeles

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Pedro Nava

Schwarzenegger and the California Department of Public Health have embraced the holiday season with a new set of proposed rules that will abandon low-income women.

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Mammography Debate: Even Physicians Can Get Emotional About Science

Craig Bowron | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Uspstf, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Prevention, Breast Cancer Screenings, Breast Cancer Awareness, Health Care, Living News
Craig Bowron

Politicians are incapable of giving the public any bad news, and the insurance and health care industries care about profits. That leaves physicians and scientists to lead us through health care reform.

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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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More Republican Lies and Deception Over Cancer Screening

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cervical Cancer, President Obama, Mammography, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Shakira, Breast Cancer Screenings, Preventive Service Task Force, Terri Schiavo, Health Care Reform, Pap Smnear, George W Bush, Sen. Tom Coburn, Breat Cancer, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

It's irresponsible for Republicans to label two new cancer-screening recommendations as partisan-based and illustrative of the sort of "rationing" they claim reform will bring.

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Jason Linkins

Health Care Reform Opponents Stoking Fears Over Breast Cancer Screenings

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Breast Cancer Screenings, Kathleen Sebelius, Media News

The latest alarmist claptrap that's emerged in the debate over health care reform involves a study that's been done by the US Preventive Services Task...

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Birdies For Breast Cancer: Golfing Towards A Cure

Cristie Kerr | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact

Read More: Cristie Kerr, Cancer Research, Golf, Breast Cancer Screenings, Cancer Awareness, Birdies for Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer, Impact News
Cristie Kerr

Breast cancer has touched the lives of nearly all of us in some way and we all need to take an active role in educating others and supporting advances in research.

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