Ping Huang
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If you've ever gotten a routine mammogram or a colonoscopy or screening for depression in a physical, it's because of guidelines created by the U.S.
Preventive Services Task Force.
The panel of primary care clinicians recommends screenings and services people should and shouldn't get based on scientific reviews.
Kennedy fired the two top physicians leading the panel.
He's called the task force negligent and vowed to shake it up.
Dr. Alex Christ is a family physician and former chair of the panel.
Health officials plan to name new members to the panel in June.
cruise passengers arrived at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, home to a federally funded quarantine unit.
Dr. Michael Wadman oversees the facilities in which 15 passengers who don't have symptoms are quarantining.
One passenger, who tested mildly positive for hantavirus, is staying in a higher-level biocontainment unit.
And two passengers were sent to Atlanta, a couple in which one person has symptoms.
They're staying in biocontainment at Emory University.
Health officials said the passengers would be monitored for symptoms over 42 days, though after an initial assessment, some may do it from home.
cruise passengers arrived at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, home to a federally funded quarantine unit.
Dr. Michael Wadman oversees the facilities in which 15 passengers who don't have symptoms are quarantining.
One passenger, who tested mildly positive for hantavirus, is staying in a higher-level biocontainment unit.