Readings for the 20th

After reading the articles I agree with a lot of what has already been said. It is very frustrating when money becomes more important than health, but it seems to happen more regularly then the public is made aware of. It makes several processes even more confusing and perhaps more stressful than they already are. One point that stood out to me was "the new guidelines recommend that women in their 40's no longer have annual mammograms... women ages 50 t0 74 have them only every other year."?? this seems kind of ridiculous to me, how would someone catch a sign of cancer only every other year?

The debate on Gardasil was a little more familiar, I think both sides have valid arguments and I can only speak for myself. My mother has always been a bit suspicious of too much medicine and treatment and she has passed this on to me, I try to stay away from taking unnecessary medicines and so forth, however, she was definitely in support of getting my Gardasil shots, because of the evidence of their effectiveness.