More journalistic disease-mongering

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The Star Tribune newspaper has a feature story entitled, "How to be a screen queen."

Its primary focus is to remind women of all the screening tests they should have, but they also have a sidebar on men's screening test recommendations.

The problem is that many of the recommendations listed are controversial and are not supported by the
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. (Even though the paper lists the USPSTF as one of its sources!)

I won't write anything more about this for now because I'm going to submit an op-ed piece to the paper. I'll let you know if it is published.

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Glad to hear that you are submitting an op-ed.

I thought of you when I saw this piece in the
Strib this morning.

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This page contains a single entry by Gary Schwitzer published on February 19, 2008 10:36 AM.

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