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By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. I am shocked and appalled at the cataclysmic shift in the guidelines to later age and less frequent mammograms.  This ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Wednesday appeared before Congress to acknowledge that their mammogram recommendations were poorly communicated. “The task force communication was ...

It’s official:  The Internet is an integral part of clinical practice.  Google said so. We already knew that the Internet was an increasingly vital tool, ...

National survey of U.S. hospitals shows information technology has yielded neither administrative efficiencies nor cost savings The increased computerization in U.S. hospitals hasn’t made them ...

The Senate yesterday unveiled its version of a complicated and sweeping overhaul of the health care system in the U.S.  The bill is a mammouth ...

In an update to its 2002 recommendations, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now recommends against routine breast cancer screening for women under the age ...

By J. James Rohack, M.D. President, American Medical Association The AMA hails the passage of the House health reform bill, which will help improve the ...

By Lori Heim, MD President, American Academy of Family Physicians The House passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) is an important ...

      By Pierre Bellicini Throughout much of the discussion of the current health care reform debate, many recommendations call for increased reliance on ...

The Liver Disease and Transplantation Center at Albert Einstein Medical Center employs an evaluation and treatment approach for patients with liver disease that puts the ...