Read more mammogram stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/9230/mammogram.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:57:11 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74634/at-one-clinic-two-standards-of-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAt one New York City radiology clinic you get what you pay for—there are different names, different doors, and very different experiences for those paying with insurance and those shelling out their own cash. MSNBC found that on the insurance side, appointments can take 15 days to schedule, the...http://www.newser.com/story/74634/at-one-clinic-two-standards-of-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 12:12:29 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74460/mammogram-backdown-hurts-health-reform.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHealth secretary Kathleen Sebelius has set back the cause of health care reform in her rush to distance herself from the recommendation of her own department's task force concerning mammograms, writes Steven Pearlstein. The advice that women under 50 shouldn't get annual mammograms was based on science, and Sebelius should...http://www.newser.com/story/74460/mammogram-backdown-hurts-health-reform.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 1:50:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74358/welcome-to-the-conspiracy-to-ration-mammograms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRepublicans are right: the new government guidelines urging women not to have mammograms in their 40s are definitely a nefarious conspiracy to start rationing care. “Whatever happens, we do not want the government conducting any studies on whether current health practices actually do any good,” writes Gail Collins in the...http://www.newser.com/story/74358/welcome-to-the-conspiracy-to-ration-mammograms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 9:28:57 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74341/new-mammogram-advice-not-us-policy-sebelius.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe recommendation from the US Preventative Services Task Force that women in their 40s should not get mammograms is not government policy, said the secretary of Health and Human Services. Kathleen Sebelius tried to tamp down some of the controversy that has followed the panel’s decision, asserting that government insurance...http://www.newser.com/story/74341/new-mammogram-advice-not-us-policy-sebelius.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 17:22:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74192/doctors-blast-new-mammogram-guidelines.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere was an instant backlash from oncologists and gynecologists yesterday after a government panel recommended that that women in their 40s stop getting annual mammograms. “I think it is unfortunate that they came to this conclusion,” the director of imaging at one breast cancer center told the Los Angeles Times...http://www.newser.com/story/74192/doctors-blast-new-mammogram-guidelines.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 7:46:04 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74172/govt-panel-recommends-fewer-mammograms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMost women can wait to get their first mammogram at 50 and then should get one every 2 years rather than annually, a powerful health policy group said today. New information led to the recommendations, said a member of the influential task force that reversed a 7-year-old edict urging aggressive...http://www.newser.com/story/74172/govt-panel-recommends-fewer-mammograms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 17:12:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72170/cancer-experts-worried-about-screening.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe American Cancer Society is rethinking its advice on screening for breast and prostate cancer amid studies showing that the tests can miss the deadliest forms of the disease, and in some cases lead to dangerous, unnecessary treatment. The society is working on a new message stressing that cancer screening...http://www.newser.com/story/72170/cancer-experts-worried-about-screening.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 1:22:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65410/breast-cancer-death-in-blacks-linked-to-genes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe higher risk of death from breast cancer for black women may depend more on differences of biology than environmental factors, the Baltimore Sun reports. Research shows that black women are up to 49% more likely to die from the disease than white women, even when patients receive the same...http://www.newser.com/story/65410/breast-cancer-death-in-blacks-linked-to-genes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Jul 2009 14:41:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64028/mammograms-may-lead-to-overtreatment-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOne-third of breast cancers that show up on mammograms may be essentially harmless, meaning that treating every tumor causes unnecessary trauma, a five-nation study suggests. A mammogram doesn't reveal whether a cancer is lethal or harmless, so all get treated when some could be merely monitored, the BBC reports. The...http://www.newser.com/story/64028/mammograms-may-lead-to-overtreatment-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Jul 2009 10:00:23 CDT