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US health panel adds self-testing option for cervical cancer screening

Dec. 10, 2024 11:42 AM EST

Women should have the option of taking their own test samples for cervical cancer screening, an influential health panel said Tuesday. Draft recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are aimed at getting more people screened and spreading the word that women can...

Here's how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to remake the nation's top health agencies

Nov. 15, 2024 21:23 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and environmentalist, for years gained a loyal and fierce following with his biting condemnations of how the nation’s public health agencies do business. And that's put him on a direct collision course with some of...