Something that struck me most about the first reading was that the main priority of the article was economics and finances rather than about women’s health and the decline of mammograms. For instance, the article mentioned more about the financial impacts for companies of breast cancer screening devices than about the health implications or reasons behind the decline in mammograms and increasing age of women who get them.

I found the article about HPV vaccines to be interesting in that the vaccines were still resisted even though they were beneficial to one’s health. In particular, the article illustrates the stigma around getting vaccines or getting treated since HPV is spread primarily among sexually active people and injection drug users. The article also made me curious to think about other methods to improve women’s health without such polarizing and extreme attempts such as mandated vaccines.