WASHINGTON -- Women are now advised to get a mammogram every other year starting at age 40 and until age 74, according to new recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force. The USPSTF, a ...

The Preventive task force meeting scheduled for November has been postponed due to the government shutdown, HHS confirms.

A November meeting of an influential preventive services advisory committee has been postponed by the Department of Health ...

HHS scrapped yet another meeting of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), sources told MedPage Today. The meeting ...

Reports began circulating this July that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might fire all 16 members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). (See related article, ...

Shutdown enters 5th week with stalled SNAP payments, paused hospital IT projects, and delayed USPSTF meeting amid bipartisan talks.

The mean monthly screening volume increased 955% in individuals aged 45 to 49 years, compared to 46% in individuals aged 50 to 75 years, study researchers reported.

In just the past 8 years since we launched this report, the 5-year survival rate has gone from 18% to nearly 30%,” said Harold Wimmer, President and CEO of the American Lung Association.

PHILADELPHIA -- Children as young as 8 years old should be screened for anxiety, the country's leading panel of experts on health prevention recommended Tuesday for the first time. The new draft ...