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The USPSTF revised guidelines were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in November 2009 and recommended against routine screening mammography for women aged 40–49 years, suggesting that ...
October 20, 2015. 0. The American Cancer Society (ACS) has just updated their guidelines for screening mammography, while the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated their own ...
The USPSTF is calling for more studies on the benefits and harms of screening for osteoporosis to prevent fractures and related morbidity and mortality in men. "Men do get osteoporosis," Davis said.
The USPSTF last issued guidelines for colorectal cancer screening in 2008. At that time, it recommended only three approaches to screening: colonoscopy, fecal occult blood testing (FOBT), or ...
USPSTF member John Wong, MD, chief of clinical decision making and a primary care physician at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, believes the new recommendation is the right move.
The USPSTF noted several gaps for future research, including the best approaches for blood pressure monitoring during pregnancy and the postpartum period, how to address health inequities through ...
The USPSTF guidance applies only to adults aged 40-75 without CV signs or symptoms and recommends a statin prescription for persons at "high risk," that is with an estimated 10-year PCE-based risk ...
The USPSTF's decision to recommend an earlier start age for routine mammography was partly intended to begin to address the fact that Black women are about 40% more likely to die from breast ...
The USPSTF recommendation is very similar to the draft update of guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which recommends screening for HCV at least once in a lifetime ...
"Using a reaffirmation process, the USPSTF concludes with high certainty that there is a substantial net benefit of screening for syphilis infection in nonpregnant persons who are at increased ...