There’s an active debate in the medical community about the age at which women should start regularly going in for…
Because Venezuela is in the midst of an economic crisis, procedures that are often a last resort in the battle against…
It doesn't take a scientist to know that pictures of boobs are better in 3D. Wait, no, apparently it does. According to…
Many women young women who die from breast cancer have never been screened, according to a new study that suggests that…
Back in 2009, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force controversially recommended that women from the ages of 40 to…
Roughly one third of tumors found in routine mammography screenings are "unlikely to result in illness, according to a…
Raise your hand if you saw this one coming from a mile away — while for years women have been told and told and told by…
I'm still too young (and, theoretically, not genetically cancer-prone enough) to require regular mammograms, but I've…
Last week, Boing Boing editor Xeni Jardin live-tweeted her first mammogram — and same-day cancer diagnosis. A number of…
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This Peruvian ad from the Liga Contra el Cancer (League Against Cancer) is in English, but it's still incomprehensible.…
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In the grand tradition of cartoon villains Snidely Whiplash and Dick Dastardly, Joe Lieberman scored a blow to health…
From the AP: Senators Barbara Mikulski (left) and Olympia Snowe sponsored an amendment that "would allow the Health and…
Barbara Ehrenreich asks, "has feminism been replaced by the pink-ribbon breast cancer cult?" In other words, are women…
Just days after a task force raised a stink by advising that women wait until age 50 to have mammograms, another group…
The report made waves by advising against home screening for breast cancer and against annual mammograms:
On Monday, a government task force recommended that women under 50 not get regular mammograms, and the news has many…
New guidelines released by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force advise that women ages 40 to 50 shouldn't bother…
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