A panel of experts says mammograms are causing women being screened for breast cancer to have too many false alarms and unneeded biopsies. The panel is recommending that women wait until 50 to get mammograms and then only every two years. The American Cancer Society says it stands by its recommendations of regular mammograms beginning at age 40.
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First, a panel of "experts"? I beg to differ, you see I am a truer expe…
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Posted on November 17, 2009 at 8:59pm —
This was written to a good pallie of mine, a sister to me really,
who is in the process of having to make some very large life
changes. Anyone who has undertaken to do so knows the
upheaval is never easy. I support her totally no matter
what she does, however I wanted to find a constructive
way to let her know this. Thus I did as I always do, I
wrote about it...HJS
TAKE YOUR MEDS, THEY WILL CURE YOU
By Harriette J. Schwartz
Life as we all know is too terri…
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Posted on November 16, 2009 at 11:40am — 1 Comment
IS ANYONE ELSE TIRED OF SARAH PALIN?
By Harriette J. Schwartz 11/12/09
I do not want to be considered rude or pompous. It is perhaps wrong to point up only the things that are wrong with this woman. I am sorry, but Sarah Palin makes it impossible for me to do anything else! Try though I might, it is impossible for me to find very much right with a person who cannot take responsibility for their own actions and failures.
In her soon to be released book GOING ROGUE: AN AME…
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Posted on November 12, 2009 at 10:00pm — 3 Comments
MEMORIES AND CHOICES
November 6, 2009 By Harriette J. Schwartz
In the early 1970s, I decided after dating a top New York City disc jockey that I had what it took, and that I too could earn a living in broadcasting. I was trained as most girls were in those days to take stenography, get coffee and file papers. As such, I was working a very nice secretarial position in the garment district at the time. My closest contact with broadcasting was calling into my buddy disc jock…
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Posted on November 6, 2009 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments