What Mammography and Continuous Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Have in Common

by Melissa Garvey, Writer and EditorEarlier this week the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued revised breast cancer screening guidelines: women in their 40s who have no unusual risk factors for breast cancer should not receive routine mammograms for early detection of breast cancer and should instead begin routine screening at age 50.This is proving upsetting especially to women

Peeling Back the Pink of Breast Cancer Awareness

by Melissa Garvey, ACNM Writer and EditorLast weekend the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) launched an Emerging Leaders workshop—a program designed to train the next generation of breast cancer advocates. I attended as an ACNM staffer and was struck by the parallels between breast cancer advocacy and birth advocacy.What I found most fascinating was the amount of misinformation about breast