Preventive Services Task Force makes waves

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USA Today: Health Task Force Challenges Conventions, Faces Condemnation
And it seems nobody these days loves the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Few Americans had even heard of it until three years ago, when the advisory board with the 10-syllable name challenged convention by saying women under 50 might not benefit from mammograms, just as the debate over health care was coming to a boil (Szabo, 7/14).


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