#Mammograms

Update: After being assured by my insurer my out-of-pocket costs for diagnostic #mammogram would be no more than $50, I was actually billed $176+ OOP [facility charged $1k+]. Today, insurer

Ebony Jade Hilton, MD

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In @chadwickboseman’s passing we highlight tragic truth for Black ppl. Did you know that Blacks have higher death rates & die at younger ages for MOST cancers including colon, lung,

Dr. Paula Gordon

You can’t know by individual stories. But there have been 11 Randomized trials performed that proved that screening saves lives beginning at age 40, even in the days of primitive

Just online..We use population based study of women participating in organized screening mammography to highlight the inefficiencies of such screening program: we show that mammography catches less harmful cancers and

Dr. April Wright

Wonderful thread on why US evolutionary biologists and paleontologists tend to be so skeptical of intelligent design and creationism: it was used to make a legal framework by which course

BLM | pfizer princess 👸🏾

Planned Parenthood does health exams, cancer screenings, STD testing, Covid testing but these people think only abortions happen there.https://twitter.com/anchoragepress/status/1303758358155948032 Imagine going into planned parenthood for a

John Mandrola, MD

Thread on a potential silver lining of #COVID19 My friend @BenMazer is a pathologist and he's noticed huge declines in specimens obtained for cancer diagnoses. Reason: hospitals have stopped elective

Being Dense #StayAtHome

Breast Density is often Hereditary I don't have a daughter. If I did, I'm damn sure I'd want her to be told about her #BreastdensityStop playing with women's lives, advise

dreaming with my eyes open

if you’re celebrating Planned Parenthood’s defunding as a win for the Pro-life movement, remember you just stripped MILLIONS of women of:-Rape counseling referrals-Cancer screenings-STD testing/treatment-Prenatal services-Inexpensive bi

NewshubNationNZ

Today at 10 am the Epidemic Response Committee will be hearing from Sir David Skegg, NZ Medical Association, NZ Aged Care Association, Pharmacy Guild of NZ, NZ Disability Support Network

Dr. Karen Winkfield

A2: #TLCtransform asks what is black #breast cancer... Dissertation below. 1/ #BreastCancer is a spectrum of diseases that can impact anyone at any time. Unfortunately, black women (and men!) often

Ok so I’m gonna be super real for a bit in case it helps anyone else. My boob is killing me. I’d been having weird health issues for months and

Crystal Frasier

I've seen a lot of misinformation and ignorance--both willful and well-intentioned--about trans women's breasts in particular lately. So *sigh*...Let's talk about my breasts. So hi. I'm a trans woman. I

Dr Ellie Murray

THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST: why are COVID deaths *still* not going up 3 weeks after case counts started increasing? There are many possible explanations, but one I haven’t seen mentioned

Amanda Marcotte

John Boehner's out there trying to rehab his image into a principled elder statesman. Don't buy it. He is one of the main architects of the right wing craziness that

Jordana Phillips

1/ Let the tweetorials begin for our #breastradpath series with @LizaMQuintana! We're starting with the basics of screening mammography for #BCAM Each screening mammo has 4 images-2 of the right