(NECN/ABC news) - For the second time this week, new guidelines urge women to get less screening for cancer.
"We're more concerned that people are getting over-treated than we are about missing cervical cancer," said Dr. Cheryl Iglesia of American College ...Read More
American women should get Pap smears to detect cervical cancer beginning at age 21, instead of three years after their first sexual experience, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Medical experts previously recommended that women receive their first ...Read More
People recommended for Tamiflu should continue to take it, say officials
Health officials are warning a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu makes the need for vaccination more important.
Five patients at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales appear to have acquired the ...Read More
Mary Ivey didn't have a family history of breast cancer or a genetic mutation putting her at high risk for the disease. At 37, she was too young for an annual mammogram. But one day in March, she did a ...Read More
Maryland health officials reported 11 more swine flu deaths Friday, including three children - bringing the state's total to 30 deaths and 787 hospitalizations from the H1N1 virus. The updated totals come from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's weekly ...Read More
WASHINGTON—Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care -- and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.
"This is how ...Read More
ATLANTA — Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the ...Read More
GENEVA — The World Health Organization said Friday that it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of the mutation is unclear. Norway's Institute of ...Read More
Re "Guidelines Push Back Age for Cervical Cancer Tests" (front page, Nov. 20); "The Controversy Over Mammograms" (editorial, Nov. 20); and "Addicted to Mammograms," by Robert Aronowitz (Op-Ed, Nov. 20): The debate over the rational use of screening tests for breast ...Read More
State public health officials announced yesterday the death of two people from swine flu, including a child under the age of 4, underscoring the vulnerability that young people appear to have to the unusual virus. The child is just the second ...Read More
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