Word: task
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That's the hard lesson that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) learned when it changed course on its recommendations for mammography screening and advised women to delay having the screen until they are 50, rather than beginning evaluations at 40, as they have recommended previously. Over the past two decades, annual mammograms for women over 40 had become a standard of preventive care in the U.S. - right up there with daily exercise, quitting smoking and getting a flu shot. (Read "Understanding the Health-Care Debate: Your Indispensable Guide...
...Given the backdrop of health care reform and insurers' preoccupation with cost containment, the major concern is that women under 50 may now stand to lose insurance coverage for mammography - a preventive test that Medicare is mandated to pay for. But Sebelius rejected the notion. The task force does not "set federal policy, and they don't determine what services are covered by the Federal Government," she said. On the part of the task force, Petitti says the cost of mammography was never mentioned in the panel's discussions...
...position paper suggests creating more gender-neutral housing by installing locks in gender-accommodating suites. Hayward quoted a draft of the position paper, which is being developed in consultation with the QSA and the Transgender Task Force, in his response to a publicly available QSA questionnaire for UC presidential candidates...
There is no question that this is where research is moving: the Harvard Task Force on University Libraries’ report, which came out last week, stated: “Perhaps most destabilizing to our operating model is the digital revolution. Though it is still in its early stages, it has already penetrated nearly all aspects of research and teaching...
...Barroso, is also from the center right. Ashton was a dark horse, but she was seen as a consolation prize for Britain's center-left Prime Minister Gordon Brown, after his attempt to secure the presidency for Blair was rebuffed. For E.U. leaders struggling to meet the criteria - a task that one official likened to "three-dimensional chess" - they could at least claim that the Van Rompuy-Ashton duo hit most of their buttons...