jennifer ashton

CBS' "Face the Nation " looks at health care and mammogram guidelines. The guests are Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; and Dr. Jennifer Ashton, an ob-gyn and a CBS News medical correspondent. The program starts at 10:30 a.m. on WKMG. ***  

 

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Just days after a government task force put out new mammogram guidelines, there are revised cervical cancer recommendations by the American College of Gynecologists (ACOG). ACOG calls the timing a coincidence. The guidelines recommend: Women start testing at 21 instead of three years after becoming sexually active.  

(CBS) Health officials say they are carefully monitoring the H1N1 vaccine program for any dangerous side effects, including a very rare syndrome known as Guillain Barre syndrome, also known as GBS. However, CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton reported GBS has been cropping up this year, possibly in connection with the H1N1 vaccine. She shared the story of one young man who developed GBS, and why his parents think it may be related to the H1N1 vaccine.

It's an aching, but it's also a pain that I can't describe.   -Jordan McFarland

 

With juice labels touting their healthy benefits, it's easy to believe we're doing our bodies good with a glass of fruit juice. But just this week, Dr. Jennifer Ashton caught my attention when she stopped by the CBS Early Show to clear up some juicy health myths. Take the quiz and see how juice stacks up to your other beverage choices.  

(CBS) Even as health care reform debate continues, changes to how your health care information is stored and shared have already begun. And your doctor may not be the only one looking into your records, as CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton reported on "The Early Show" in our "Somebody's Watching You" series. The health information technology revolution, Ashton said, began under the Bush Administration and has continued under President Obama with the goal of having the medical records  

(CBS) Some women like 47-year-old Sharon Whitmore, a breast cancer survivor, credit mammograms with saving their lives. Whitmore, cancer-free for almost a year, told CBS News she fears the guidelines released this week by a federal government task force will prevent women her age and younger from getting routine protection. The task force, CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reported, is an independent panel comprised of 16 medical experts including clinicians, pediatricians and bio statisticians,

Our recommendations really are do what you've always done, read the task force report, but then talk to your doctor.   -Kathleen Sebelius

 

(CBS) Some women like 47-year-old Sharon Whitmore, a breast cancer survivor, credit mammograms with saving their lives. Whitmore, cancer-free for almost a year, told CBS News she fears the guidelines released this week by a federal government task force will prevent women her age and younger from getting routine protection. The task force, CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reported, is an independent panel comprised of 16 medical experts including clinicians, pediatricians and bio statisticians,

Our recommendations really are do what you've always done, read the task force report, but then talk to your doctor.   -Kathleen Sebelius

 

I watched all three TV networks' lead stories from last night's newscasts - all three on the US Preventive Services Task Force's new breast cancer screening recommendations. Lots of talk about "anger, confusion, concern, fear, outright revolt, disturbing, shocking" reactions from women and doctors all across the country. First, I'll note a reasonably well-balanced job by CBS' Dr. Jon LaPook and by NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman.