Mammograms: - Could they have helped kylie? - In the week that pop star Kylie Minogue announced that she has breast cancer, a new study from her homeland Australia remains dubious that earlier mam...

Mammograms - Q:I am 47. My doctor is pressing me to have mammograms every other year. What evidence is there that it can help prevent cancer? M S, Hitchin. ...

Mammography - The hard truths behind the screen - As breast cancer rates continue to spiral upward (to 185,000 women in the US and 28,000 women in the UK every year), the pressure is on for women, par...

The mammogram myth - How all our massive screening efforts for breast cancer can cause the very disease they are intended to detect. ...

Hiv test giving false positives in 5% of all cases - Thousands of people wrongly believe they are HIV infected because of the standard Western blot test which is giving false positive results in nearly 5...

Mammograms pushed on women without evidence - Thirty five years of randomised trials of mammography have failed to confirm the efficacy of mammograms as a screening tool. ...

New foetal screening test risky for older mothers - Two leading London consultant obstetricians deplored the use of chorion villus sampling the new, earlier screening test for Down's syndrome on older w...

Over one third of mammograms give false reading - Up to one third of women given a mammogram could suffer the anguish of a false positive where the test incorrectly detects breast cancer and consequen...