Former NIH chief: Ignore new mammogram guideline

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Sun, 11/22/2009 - 08:43

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The former director of the National Institutes of Health is advising women to ignore new guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer....


 

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