WASHINGTON -- Women are now advised to get a mammogram every other year starting at age 40 and until age 74, according to new recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force. The USPSTF, a ...

Associations were seen for lack of health insurance coverage, being a rural resident, and not having a clinician with decreased odds of screening. HealthDay News — Increased lung cancer screening ...

Objectives: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening has been recommended for US adults aged 45 to 49 years. This study examined the rate and predictors of CRC screening in 202 ...

Here are five recommendations regarding prevention and screening of colorectal cancer, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. 1. The USPSTF recommends screening for colorectal cancer ...

Overall, the findings suggest that a shift away from one-size-fits-all mammography toward personalized screening schedules could save more lives with less collateral harm by screening more ...

Researchers compared ACS to USPSTF lung cancer screening criteria, assessing how ACS criteria affected overall eligibility as eligibility in racial/ethnic/gender subgroups.

A study published in the Annals of Family Medicine sought to evaluate whether suggestions by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force were aligned with what preventive services are actually covered by ...

Credit: Getty Images Investigators compared radical prostatectomy outcomes before and after the USPSTF downgraded PSA screening. Reducing PSA-based screening appears to have contributed to delayed ...

Summer V Allen; Lise Solberg Nes; Mary L Marnach; Kristen Polga; Sarah M Jenkins; Julia A Files; Ivana T Croghan; Karthik Ghosh; Sandhya Pruthi The current study sought to investigate the impact of ...

There’s growing concern that the US Department of Health and Human Services is abandoning the US Preventive Services Task Force – or pushing it into “quiet paralysis.” ...