January 2010

US Medicine Direct

January 2010

Dear U.S. Medicine Reader,

If you are confused about screening guidelines regarding mammograms, you are not alone. In a potential reversal of federal guidelines issued last year, the “final health-care bill is likely to require coverage for more mammograms than the new guidelines recommend,” this according to a recent article in the The Wall Street Journal. It was also reported in the same article that women’s groups, doctors, and imaging equipment makers increased pressure on legislators to reverse the recently revised guidelines.

Physicians have widely supported early and frequent screening, as well as patient advocacy groups. After the federally funded US Preventative Services Task Force issued revised guidelines advising that routine mammograms were not necessary for women in their 40s with normal cancer risk, the aforementioned groups took action to re-instate the previous guidelines.

Another key element was the assertion by the “task force” that women between the ages of 50 and 74 did not need a mammogram more often than once every 2 years.

We will continue to report on these developments both here and in U. S. Medicine as they unfold.

Ken Senerth
Editor, U. S. Medicine

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COMING NEXT MONTH

The February issue of U.S. Medicine will contain an in-book supplement entitled U.S. Medicine Federal Health Outlook 2010. This publication will provide a “prospective” view of what your organization will focus on in the upcoming year in terms of goals and budget. We expect this to prove a valuable addition to the regular February issue.

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