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The change in Pap testing does not represent as monumental a shift as the USPSTF's new advice on mammography, since Pap testing of adolescents, while recommended, has not become as entrenched as mammography as a preventive tool. Still, both new sets of cancer screening guidelines exemplify an effort by...
If the brouhaha following a government advisory panel's recent change in breast-cancer-screening recommendations has proved anything, it is that even modern medicine does not rely on statistics, scientific facts and clinical outcomes alone.
But after taking a more in-depth look at the numbers, the task force decided that the risks of mammography for women in their 40s do not outweigh the small benefit that the screens provide. On top of that, the panel recommended that doctors no longer urge women to perform...
Al Gore has written a textbook. The Nobel laureate and self-proclaimed recovering politician continues his quest to educate the public on the undeniable dangers of climate change with Our Choice, a sequel to his 2006 slideshow-book-film, An Inconvenient Truth. Our Choice discusses the causes of global warming...
Qian Xuesen, who died Oct. 31 at 98, didn't like being called the father of China's guided-missile program: he felt that the title didn't give credit to his fellow researchers. Indeed, while the Chinese-born, U.S.-educated rocket scientist was technically brilliant, he also realized that...