Do you ever put off getting your mammogram done? If you do, you might appreciate a new reminder program aimed at screening for breast cancer when it is most treatable. The study, conducted by Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research, reached out to women would be due for a mammogram via postcards, automated voice messages and personal phone calls.

They did this with 35,000 woman, and by the second year of the program in 2008,mammography rates jumped from 63 to more than 80 percent among women aged 50-69. This study is the largest to test a program involving …read more