First we want to begin with the breaking news from across the pond. The royal baby is on the way. The duchess of Cambridge Kate middleton is in the early stages of labor this morning. Youre looking live at st. Marys hospital in west of london. What you dont see is the row of media staked out there. Along with some well wishers and citizens who are watching this play out, their version of great expectations. Kate middleton will give birth to the fourth in line to the throne. Prince william is by her side this morning, we hear waiting for the birth of their second child. The couple says that they dont know if the baby is a boy or a girl. Kensington palace says the birth will be announced in a mod way. Theyre going to do it on twitter and instagram. Social media is the thing. You announce your presidency, your babies. It just seems to fit with the hats. Today a derby day. Thats right. It is derby day. Ill be judging hats later. So more on that. Cool. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to yo
You on prevention, ways to preventolin ks of chemicals in Breast Cancer and ill let her talk about the rest, bonnie, thank you for coming. Alright. Thank you all so much for being here today. Im very excited to be able to give this presentation to you, unfortunately, i was expecting to have a copresenter who had a minor accident and visited the emergency room this morning instead of visiting us, so we have plenty of folks from the Breast Cancer fund and other groups on hand to answer questions, but we are missing our policy geru unfortunately, i dont know how much this audience is familiar with it but weve also been meeting and talking about doing a study of exposures among women firefighters in particular, and so we have some members of that team talking about that here, sharl patton is back there, give a wave, and did rachel step out already . And rachel thought she was going to give a wave but she had to step out to go to another meeting, from the Breast Cancer fund, we have my two
Lives, we can ask our health care provides, are there safer alternative, mri or ultrasounds for doing this test, and then if you have kids and they need a test, ensure and ask questions about the safest dose and if they have machines that can calibrate to kids, and then we have to see these changes with the laws so if fda has proposals out for medical imaging around kids so you know how to downsize a radiation dose for kids who is smaller, their physical size is narrower, and also to make machines more accountable and more clear in how they work. [inaudible]. Its very low doses but thats an excellent question and i thought somebody would probably ask that. So, the United States Preventative Services task force in 2009 came out with a proposal to revise guidelines saying that perhaps women aged 40 to 50, theres no cost benefit really for that age group in terms of having mammogram of average risk, so recommended that women start mammography at age ao where the benefits really out weigh
So relatively shortterm, but also somewhat higher heat exposure than what we probably get most of the time in San Francisco, so conditions are really variable and then its usually controlled rather than kind of normal. Yeah . So, in general where possible, staying away from plastic Water Bottles is not only making your life a little bit healthier, its decreasing our dependence on plastic which is more important as a broader environmental issue, but even Water Bottles, even if you leave them in a cold environment, you dont know where theyve come from or theyve been in ship holds which is really hot, just as a number one rule, if you smell something plastic dont drink out of it. Thats good advice. I have two questions, theyre a little bit unrelated but the first one goes on the scheme of plastic, so plastic wrap, plastic bags, you know, its great to say we should all use glass but we know whats used out there is plastic, and its reusable, you can come up with all these ways to avoid it b
Make that happen so in our own lives, we can ask our health care provides, are there safer alternative, mri or ultrasounds for doing this test, and then if you have kids and they need a test, ensure and ask questions about the safest dose and if they have machines that can calibrate to kids, and then we have to see these changes with the laws so if fda has proposals out for medical imaging around kids so you know how to downsize a radiation dose for kids who is smaller, their physical size is narrower, and also to make machines more accountable and more clear in how they work. [inaudible]. Its very low doses but thats an excellent question and i thought somebody would probably ask that. So, the United States Preventative Services task force in 2009 came out with a proposal to revise guidelines saying that perhaps women aged 40 to 50, theres no cost benefit really for that age group in terms of having mammogram of average risk, so recommended that women start mammography at age ao where