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New model improves alcohol screening and brief intervention practices in primary care

Background: The United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening adults, including pregnant women, for ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Preventive task force meeting postponed amid shutdown: HHS

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s November meeting has been postponed amid the government shutdown, HHS confirmed to The Hill. The task force, which typically meets three times a year, has not ...

Preventative health screenings appear to be the next Trump, RFK Jr. target | Opinion

Preventative health screenings task force is on similar trajectory as vaccine committee targeted by RFK Jr. | Opinion ...
WTVD

Start screening for breast cancer at age 40, new task force recommendations say

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 ...
Heartland

Showdown at the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force – Commentary

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, ...
Seattle Times

Kennedy weakens U.S. preventive services task force

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is quietly undermining an influential task force that has for years played a key role in combating chronic disease, making cancer screenings and medications ...