Latest United States Preventive Services Task Force Stories
Insurance coverage for annual screening likely one reason for persistence Women in their 40s continue to undergo routine breast cancer screenings despite national guidelines recommending otherwise, according to new Johns Hopkins research. In 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) sifted through the evidence and recommended that while women ages 50-74 should continue to undergo mammograms every two years, those between the ages of 40 and 49 without a family history of...
bioLytical Laboratories' INSTI test best tool in realizing USPSTF recommendations for routine HIV testing for the general US population. Richmond, BC (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 Makers of INSTI™, the only FDA approved 60-second rapid HIV test, have announced support for the recently released recommendation by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) that all adolescents and adults aged 15 to 65 as well as all pregnant women be screened for HIV...
In 2009, the United States Preventative Services Task Force recommended against annual mammograms for women between the ages of 40 and 49 More than three years after the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against routine mammogram screening for women between the ages of 40 and 49, a study from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) finds that mammogram rates in the United States have not declined in that age group, or any other. The study results are published in...
A study that compared the benefits and harms of the frequency of screening mammography to age, breast density and postmenopausal use of hormone therapy (HT) suggests that woman ages 50 to 74 years who undergo biennial screenings have a similar risk of advanced-stage disease and a lower cumulative risk of false-positive results than those who get mammograms annually, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. In 2009, the U.S....
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online As many as one-fourth of all colonoscopies paid for by Medicare are potentially inappropriate under current US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening guidelines, according to research published online Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. Under USPSTF guidelines, a colonoscopy is inappropriate if it is a repeat screening taking place less than 10 years following a negative screening result in patients who are...
Even though Medicare spends over $1 billion per year on breast cancer screenings such as a mammography, there is no evidence that higher spending benefits older women, researchers at Yale School of Medicine found in a study published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. Led by Cary Gross, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center at...
Researchers assessing the impact of revised guidelines for screening mammography issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) found evidence that the new recommendations may lead to missed cancers and a decline in screening, according to two studies presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Routine screening mammography has traditionally been recommended by both the USPSTF and the American Cancer Society for all women over the...
CHICAGO, Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers assessing the impact of revised guidelines for screening mammography issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) found evidence that the new recommendations may lead to missed cancers and a decline in screening, according to two studies presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Routine screening mammography has traditionally been recommended by both the...
USPSTF GRADE CHANGE WILL INCREASE ACCESS TO HIV CARE AND DECREASE NEW INFECTIONS WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued a draft recommendation today in strong support of routine HIV testing for ALL adolescents and adults ages 15 through 65. Until now, the Task Force recommended testing only for people who are at risk for HIV and pregnant women. "This marks a monumental shift in how HIV in the United States...
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Supreme Court today upheld the Affordable Care Act in its entirety, giving prostate cancer survivors continued access to affordable health insurance, but also putting early detection for the disease at risk due to the establishment of the United States Preventive Services Task Force as the federal entity responsible for establishing a required list of preventive services for which Medicare, Medicaid and insurance companies...
