The Mammography Furor: Why Both Opponents and Proponents of Screening Are Wrong
(OUP Blog) Controversy has erupted over recommendations of a government-sponsored task force that are widely interpreted as opposing mammography for women ages 40-50 without special risk factors. This reverses an earlier recommendation favoring such screening. In response a number of critics including Bernadine Healy, the form head of the National Institutes of Health, and spokespersons for the American Cancer Society and the American College of Radiation have challenged the recommendation claiming that cutting out the screening will cost people’s lives. They insist that 40-50 year-olds should still be screened routinely.

A Sign of Hard Choices to Come
(Indianapolis Star) The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's recent recommendation against routine mammography screening of women ages 40 to 49 has sparked a major public debate, one that foreshadows the hard choices we are going to have to make in the future. Health reformers maintain that one important strategy for reducing rising health-care costs is by focusing on services and treatments that have demonstrated effectiveness.

HLI President Skeptical That Obama's New Bioethics Commission Will Be Ethical
(Catholic News Agency) Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer, President of Human Life International has called for Americans to be watchful of President Obama's appointments to the new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, claiming the unlikelihood of the advisors to share the pro-life sentiment of the majority of Americans.

Bill would ban public money for stem cell research in Missouri
(Kansas City Business Review) Missouri would ban the use of public dollars for stem cell research through a constitutional amendment proposed in legislation filed this week.

13 New Human Stem-cell Lines OK'd
(Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life) Scientists received a green light Wednesday to apply for use of 13 human embryonic stem-cell lines from an approved list developed by the National Institutes of Health, the government's prime medical research agency.

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