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Howard Kurtz doesn't add to public understanding of mammography issue
Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz strayed beyond media observations and injected his own comments about the US Preventive Services Task Force breast screening recommendations. He calls the task force recommendation a "don't-worry-be-happy-till-you're-50 finding." He defines "the essential problem with...

Five popular falsehoods in the mammography discussion
My friend Robert Davis writes about five popular falsehoods he's seen this week in the "the widespread confusion, consternation, and even anger that the new (US Preventive Services Task Force mammography) guidelines have unleashed." His five: 1. This is all...

Kudos to Nancy Snyderman for some of her mammography explanations this week
I am a frequent critic of TV health news - and especially of much of this week's TV coverage of the US Preventive Services Task Force mammography recommendations. So I want to make special note this week of some of...

The history of uncertainty surrounding mammography
As I've written earlier, the reaction from some people that this week's US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations were "surprising" or "coming out of nowhere" are themselves surprising. Anyone - certainly any informed health care consumer and certainly any journalist-...

People should have known more about USPSTF all along
For a long time, I've urged health care journalists to refer to the recommendations of the US Preventive Services Task Force and to educate readers/viewers about how the group operates. Perhaps one of the reasons the task force's recommendations this...