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ACOG is a professional group representing more than 40,000 physicians involved in women's care. It issues periodic recommendations, based on a patient's age and risk factors, on what types of screening, evaluation and counseling should be part of a woman's routine exams. The new recommendations replace a set issued two years...
Diabetes testing is another major change. A glucose test is now recommended every three years for all women over age 45--not just for those known to be at high risk for diabetes. ACOG also changed its definition of high risk, expanding it to include women in ethnic groups that are disproportionately vulnerable: African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans...
...high-risk group was expanded as well. In addition to tests for pregnant women, ACOG now recommends HIV tests for all women seeking preconception care and any woman with invasive cervical cancer, regardless of age...
...risk women in their 40s, ACOG still recommends a mammogram every one to two years and annually after age 50. However, a study released last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association brings into question the use of mammography in women after age 69. Researchers studied 10,000 women to try to determine whether annual mammograms provided enough benefit to warrant their use. The results showed, rather dramatically, that the gains in life expectancy for these elderly women were minimal. With some variation depending on the sample, only 1 death per 10,000 women is likely...
...DeAngelis remains frustrated. Sometimes he thinks about the final conversation he had with Dave Sanders, the teacher killed April 20. Both men had been coaches. They had been to each other's wedding, had kids around the same age. On April 19 they sat together at a baseball game, and their how-are-you chat turned more contemplative: the long hours they spent, the many challenges of working with teenagers--"Is all the time worth it?" they wondered. They both said yes then. And DeAngelis says...