Last week a little known advisory body to Mr. Thompson's department, the federal Preventive Services Task Force, weighed in with its own verdict: a clear endorsement of mammography screening for women starting at age 40.
While you may regard the United States Preventive Services Task Force as "a little known advisory body" to the Department of Health and Human Services, it is the primary source of guidance to the nation's health plans on more than 200 clinical preventive services offered to adults and children in primary care settings.
To borrow Locke's concept, the known and indifferent judge is available, but when he is most urgently needed, he is reduced to issuing what are little more than advisory opinions.
To little notice, an advisory commission charged with figuring out a permanent solution for America's nuclear waste has issued a new approach for siting a waste repository that just might work.
There was little chance that the advisory committee or the drug agency would approve the arthritis drug, Arcoxia, at the hearing.
"I think probably that we have backed off a little bit from the advisory issued in June, which recommended against using Paxil," said Dr. Thomas Laughren, a psychiatrist and an F.D.A. official.
Objectives: A review of the literature reveals little description of the advisory role of the health visitor in the child health clinic.
Givaudan plays little more than an advisory role for its clients, who use marketing alchemy to reconstruct flavoring back into what consumers mean by the experience of "taste".
The boil-water advisory had little, if any, effect on reducing subsequent cases.
Although advisories to reduce consumption of contaminated fish, especially by women, have been issued by GL states (i.e., Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) since the mid-1970s, listle is known about advisory awareness and GL sport fish consumption in the general population.
