Preventive Medicine

Experts Call for More Counseling/Better Screening

Published in Blood Weekly, December 25th, 1995

A task force of prominent preventive health specialists recommended that doctors and nurses offer more frequent patient counseling on personal health and safety habits, significantly change the use of some screening tests, and ensure that several newer immunizations are routinely provided.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel first convened in 1984 as an initiative of the U.S. Public Health Service, issued the first revision of its widely used 1989 guide to effective disease prevention and health promotion, based on a careful review of scientific evidence.

Many of the recommended changes in the 1995 "Guide to Clinical...

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