CNN

Task force updates guidance for breast cancer screenings for women 40 and older

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 volunteer ...
LGBTQ Nation

Air Force guidelines on ousting trans troops include trials to investigate their gender identities

The Air Force has issued guidance on how transgender Airmen and Guardians will be involuntarily discharged, making it the first branch to provide detailed instructions on removing transgender ...

Kennedy Fires Leaders of Key Health Task Force

The health secretary has undermined the work of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force over the past year. By Maggie Astor ...
CNN

Doctors should intervene to help children with obesity, task force draft says, but it doesn’t recommend surgery or meds

Nearly 20% of all children in the US have what’s considered to be a high body mass index, the measure that practitioners use to determine whether a person has obesity. New draft guidelines released ...
NPR

If you're 40, it's time to start mammograms, according to new guidelines

Breast cancer is very treatable when caught early, and mammograms, which are X-ray images of breasts, are a reliable screening test to detect it. Now, new draft recommendations released Tuesday from ...
KSTP-TV

Task force: Recommendations coming soon to reform controversial ‘48-hour rule’

Task force: Recommendations coming soon to reform controversial ’48 Hour Rule’ The task force formed to address a mental health crisis in jails and hospitals in Minnesota will miss its deadline to ...