Word: scandal
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...Mammography Guidelines It usually takes a Washington scandal to put the discussion of women's breasts on political agendas, but in November it was a routine update of breast-cancer-screening guidelines by a government panel of medical advisers that stirred up a furor. Based on new calculations weighing the risks and benefits of routine screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new recommendations advised women to begin routine mammograms at age 50 instead of 40 and to switch from yearly to biennial screenings; it also advised women to eliminate breast self-exams altogether. Doctors, patients, cancer advocacy groups...
...health care activist after discovering she was infected with the hepatitis virus by a contaminated blood transfusion she received as a newborn. She was just one of thousands of Japanese who received contaminated clotting agents in blood in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, which became a major health care scandal. Fukuda's lobbying against Japan's Ministry of Health and private companies that had sold the tainted blood-clotting agents established her public profile - she wrote two books about her experiences - and ultimately brought her to Ozawa's attention...
...earlier version of the Dec. 7 news article "Undergraduate Council Votes to Censure VP After Election Scandal" incorrectly stated that an e-mail sent by Kia J. McLeod '10 alleged that Eric N. Hysen '11 had accessed the official voting software and tampered with the vote tally. In fact, McLeod merely wrote—in conjunction with "an underlying concern about the validity of the voting process"—that Hysen "might still have" access to the voting software...
...playing field, they might've earned back their pedestals. Kobe Bryant, whose jersey is again the NBA's most popular, has buried his legal troubles in the confetti of his latest championship. When the New York Yankees captured their 27th title in November, Alex Rodriguez's steroid use - a scandal botched as badly, from a p.r. standpoint, as Woods' mysterious car accident - took a backseat to story lines about how the revelation liberated him to focus on connecting with his teammates. (Read "Rachel Uchitel: Tiger Woods' Alleged Mistress...
...Read "How Tiger Woods Can Survive the Scandal...