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Updated Federal Breast Screening Recommendations

Posted: Sunday February 2, 2025

NEWS: Breast Cancer Screening – Updated Federal Recommendations On 12/30/24, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) issued a notice, Update to the Health Resources and Services

New state insurance bills

Posted: Sunday January 26, 2025

Four new state insurance bills for expanded breast imaging coverage were introduced this week: Arizona HB2561 Connecticut SB00757 Utah HB0314

Latest State Insurance Bills, MAB News

Posted: Sunday January 19, 2025

U.S. State Insurance Bills New bills introduced this week to cover expanded breast imaging include the following: Florida H0131 Florida H0141 Florida H0187 Hawaii SB189 New York S00310 North

State insurance bills, Order of Ontario

Posted: Monday January 13, 2025

State Insurance Bills The 2025 legislative session has begun and new insurance bills to cover expanded breast imaging have been introduced in the following states: Indiana HB1061 New Jersey A2067

DBI Milestone

Posted: Monday January 6, 2025

The numbers are in! DenseBreast-info.org had over one million website visits in 2024. We are honored to be the “go to” educational resource on the issue of breast density. We are ready! Wishing

MAB News, Happy Holidays!

Posted: Monday December 23, 2024

Congratulations! Dr. Paula Gordon has been officially invested in the Order of Canada! It is one of the country’s most prestigious honors and recognizes citizens who have made extraordinary

Find it Early Act Update

Posted: Monday December 16, 2024

Find It Early Act In November, DBI and our DC lobbying experts held a marathon of Capitol Hill office visits. Our goal is to get the Find It Early Act in the best shape possible for a 2025

Updates from RSNA

Posted: Monday December 9, 2024

SBI Announcements Congratulations to DBI’s MAB member Dr Paula Gordon for the SBI Gold Medal recognition for her outstanding contributions to breast imaging, and to JoAnn Pushkin for being named

State Insurance Law, RANZCR Statement, New Study

Posted: Sunday November 24, 2024

State Insurance Law A new Massachusetts insurance law requiring no-cost coverage for screening and diagnostic imaging (exemptions apply) will go into effect on 1/1/2026. For more details, see

Patient Fact Sheet, New Study

Posted: Monday November 18, 2024

Our popular and printable dense breast Patient Fact Sheet, already translated into 25+ languages, is now available in Albanian. We extend our thanks to DBI/Europe Education Supporter Dr. Iris

Mammo Screening Guideline Comparison Table, Silver Medal of Honor, New Studies

Posted: Monday November 4, 2024

Comparison In Average Risk Women This popular DBI table just updated to include the new ACOG recommendation that mammograms begin at age 40. Visit the table for comparative mammography

Inform and Insurance Law Maps

Posted: Monday October 28, 2024

NEW! Now that the FDA dense breast reporting standard is in effect, DBI has retired its “State Inform Law Map” (however, the map is still available upon request). As the next focus is

Risk Model Tutorial / New Study

Posted: Monday October 21, 2024

Risk Model Tutorial A resource reminder! DBI’s Risk Model Tutorial content for health care providers includes: How the models are used Risk model explanations Diagnostic considerations Risk

Flowchart Update; CEM Study

Posted: Monday October 14, 2024

Who Needs More Screening? Flowchart This popular screening decision support tool for health providers has just been updated, view it HERE. CEM Study A retrospective, single-institution study at

World Dense Breast Day SUCCESS, NY insurance law

Posted: Monday October 7, 2024

2024 Success Story We had participation from people in 104 (!) countries Over 16.8 million people saw/read the posts Over 51,200 people interacted with the posts by liking, or sharing New York State

#WDBD, Find It Early Act, EUSOBI

Posted: Monday September 30, 2024

#WorldDenseBreastDay Analytics While still waiting for final analytics to come in for #WorldDenseBreastDay, but 2024 participation will break previous records! And, it was indeed a world event

We are 10! Celebrating the #DBIDecade. More.