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Mammograms for inpatients could boost screening rates

Low-income women face a number of challenges to attending screening mammogram appointments, including issues with scheduling appointments, transportation, and time off from work. The research team from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston saw offering inpatient mammogram services to select women as one way to reach people who aren t seen as regularly in an outpatient setting. Completing preventive screening tests, such as mammograms, during hospitalizations can be one way to help patients who might otherwise miss preventive care, stated Dr. Andrew Hwang, the study s lead author and an internist at MGH, in a press release. Hwang and colleagues offered screening mammography to patients admitted to the MGH general medicine department between March 2019 and March 2020. To be eligible, patients had to meet the following criteria:

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170302:11:31:00

screening mammography and not cover biopsies. i also don t think and verma doesn t think that maternity coverage should be mandated for women who are never going to have children. that s important pointed a woman has brought up. i think we have to relook at these things. tom price said last night he wants to look through all regulations. let s step back. all the regulations and figure out which have help patients and which don t. who wrote these regulations? attorneys. let s ask a doctor and feel which one works and which don t. steve: dr. emanuel we are out of time. thank you very much. i know you understand. dr. siegel as well. thank you. great debate. all right? what do you think? email us at friends@foxnews.com. had me at hello. meanwhile, coming up. we asked you to send us questions for president trump. you did. we asked. brian: brian raw mets fan or yankees fan?

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130519:14:29:00

screening mammography for women between 50 and 74. only every two years. yet, that may absolutely not be enough if you are someone with a likelihood of getting breast cancer much earlier. right. one of the things that or en stein s piece reminded me of was the self-breast exam campaign that was launched in my college dormitory freshman year. in our dormitory communal showers there was one of those cards that hangs on the showerhead reminding you to do a breast exam in the shower. at 18 years old, women really don t need to be doing self-breast exams. that year my mother was dying of breast cancer. the last thing i needed when i took a shower was to be reminded of my breast cancer risk. so there s a sort of perversity of that campaign insofar as the only people who are really responding to that campaign are the people who actually don t need to be reminded. so to me that steaeems like a s of waste of resources.

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110629:10:02:00

i think this ranks in the top, what, two, three, four? it s up there. how do you tell your friends you re on this diet? i m on the green pea diet, the one in a jar. goes down easy. first, new evidence that getting an annual mammogram can cut the risk of developing breast cancer. the study results will go a long way to finally settling this big debate over whether breast cancer screening is actually worth it. sharyn alfonsi has the study details. reporter: the swedish study that stretched for nearly three decades showed that if screened regularly, 30% fewer women would die of breast cancer. experts say a 30% reduction would translate to 15,000 to 20,000 lives saved each year. at 46, i got a surprise. the radiologist says, we have to i see something. reporter: breast cancer. 15 years later and now cancer-free, she crerets her annual mammogram with savingnger life. what does this mean to women? what this means to women is that we have yet another piece of data that sho

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