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In the year after an expert panel’s recommendation that women delay regular breast cancer screenings until age 50, the number of women in their 40s undergoing mammograms slightly declined, a new study shows.The study, carried out by the Mayo Clinic, found a drop of roughly 6 percent in the number of

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Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Asia-Pacific with Rapidly Changing Health-Care Systems: Thailand, South Korea, and Taiwan. Thidaporn Jirawattanapisal1 Pritaporn Kingkaew2 Tae-Jin Lee3 Ming-Chin Yang4 1International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Muang Nonthaburi,Thailand; 2

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