Tag Archive for: women’s health

Too Many Mammograms?

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An interesting opinion article this past week concerned mammograms and whether they should be done as frequently as they are. The authors commented on what they view as politically mandated care instead of evidence-based care.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) had traditionally recommended that based on the evidence, mammograms should begin when a woman turns 40 and then every two years. In 2012, the recommendation was changed to mammograms beginning at 50. The reason for the change was statistics: few lives would be saved by beginning tests earlier. Needless to say, women were not happy. The . . .

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It’s American Heart Month

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February is American Heart Month as well as the big month for the Go Red for Women campaign. Both are efforts to call attention to the biggest killer of men and women: cardiovascular disease. The messages for the rest of this month will focus on preventing heart disease. I’ll review some recent research on heart disease that made headlines—some interesting, some misleading. I’ll also talk about a program I recently discovered that allows you to track your heart metrics to keep on . . .

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