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The Preventive Services Taskforce made headlines two weeks ago when it recommended fewer mammograms at a later age for women who were not at high risk for breast cancer. The taskforce found that the screening of fortysomethings made many more mistakes and found many fewer lethal tumors compared with those in subsequent decades. ABC's John McKenzie and CBS' Nancy Cordes covered House hearings at which taskforce members accounted for the backlash against their guidelines by blaming their own poor communication, while "holding firm" on their recommendation, as CBS' Cordes put it.
Meanwhile NBC's Robert Bazell was in Chicago for a convention of radiologists, which "fiercely attacked the panel's recommendations." Bazell pointed out that the "radiologists admit they have a conflict of interest. They make their living performing mammograms." The scrupulous Bazell also noted that "many imaging systems are made by General Electric, parent company of NBC."
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