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Since the pandemic began last spring, children have been the hardest hit by H1N1. So far, youngsters have the highest infection, hospitalization and death rates from the pandemic influenza than any other age group, and health officials have targeted those between six months and 24 years old as a priority group for vaccination...
...Preventing Breast Cancer Re the Spotlight on the new mammogram guidelines [Nov. 30]: Let me see if I have this straight. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force felt that the cost of women experiencing "risks" like anxiety outweighed the benefits of mammogram screening for women under age 50? Despite the fact that yearly screening for this age group "unquestionably" reduced the risk of dying 15%? I am 41, and let me be the first to tell Dr. Diana Petitti - who found the public backlash "surprising" - that I find it more anxiety-provoking to know that my risk of dying from...
Each month, interviewers contact 60,000 households - most by phone, some in person - and ask about the employment status of household members age 16 and over. Those who don't have jobs but have looked in the past four weeks are classified as unemployed. After some statistical adjustments to extrapolate the data from those 60,000 households to the total U.S. population, the number of unemployed is divided by the size of the labor force (employed plus unemployed), and there's your rate. Measured that way, unemployment still isn't as bad as it was at the lowest point...
...Mammogram Melee" failed to address the crux of the controversy [Dec. 7]. What was behind the recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to delay routine mammograms until age 50? The article says the panel "judged that the risks of harm from annual screening outweighed the benefits." But what are those risks? By failing to clarify them, you deprived readers of information they need to make up their own minds about the controversy...
Here's a riddle: If a woman is denied a mammogram at age 40 and dies at 45 of breast cancer, how much money does her insurance company save...