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The group behind the new mammography report

Until last week, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force was an obscure advisory panel. By week's end, it had become a group of medical decision-makers at the center of a storm.

While the 16-member group has in the past occupied itself with writing arcane scientific papers about areas of prevention that rarely draw a spotlight, its mammography report, which radically changed recommendations...

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