Lauren D. Block, M.D., M.P.H., a clinical fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and her colleagues expected to find fewer women in their 40s getting routine mammograms after the 2009 recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force. Instead, they found no impact on mammography rates among younger women. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Block LD, et al. Mammography Use Among Women Ages 40-49 After the 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation. J Gen Intern Med. 2013 May 15. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23674077
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