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Former NIH Chief: Ignore New Mammogram Guidelines

Should women wait until their 50s to get mammograms? A government panel recently recommended exactly that, but former NIH director Bernadine Healy, appearing on Fox News Sunday, tells Chris Wallace, "I'm saying very powerfully" to ignore the findings.

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Should women wait until their 50s to get mammograms? A government panel recently recommended exactly that, but former NIH director Bernadine Healy, appearing on Fox News Sunday, tells Chris Wallace, "I'm saying very powerfully" to ignore the findings.

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