{"id":11087,"date":"2024-03-22T14:09:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T18:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/?p=11087"},"modified":"2024-03-22T14:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T18:09:52","slug":"your-guide-to-preventative-health-screenings-for-each-decade-from-your-20s-to-your-60s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/your-guide-to-preventative-health-screenings-for-each-decade-from-your-20s-to-your-60s\/","title":{"rendered":"Your guide to preventative health screenings for each decade, from your 20s to your 60s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By\u00a0<strong>Sara Moniuszko<\/strong> Edited By\u00a0<strong>Paula Cohen<\/strong> March 22, 2024 \/ 7:50 AM EDT\u00a0\/ CBS News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making a plan for preventative care and screenings is a great way to put your health first. Whether it&#8217;s keeping up with recommended vaccines or scheduling screening tests to detect potential problems early, there are different guidelines to stay on top of at different ages throughout your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If everyone followed our preventative health screenings, we would catch disease earlier. We would be able to treat it and be more successful,&#8221; Dr. Robert M. Biernbaum, chief medical officer for WellNow Urgent Care, told CBS News. &#8220;Instead of seeing end stage breast cancer, end stage&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/colorectal-cancer-breast-cervical-pancreas-american-cancer-society-study-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">colon cancer<\/a>, we would catch them at a younger age and they would have a better outcome. So prevention is the key to being healthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help you navigate,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/healthwatch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBS News HealthWatch<\/a>\u00a0has compiled a series of guides to outline the preventative screenings experts say should be on your list, whether you&#8217;re in your 20s, over 60, or anywhere in between. Click on your age group below to learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/preventative-health-screenings-guide-age-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> for the rest of the article.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Sara Moniuszko Edited By\u00a0Paula Cohen March 22, 2024 \/ 7:50 AM EDT\u00a0\/ CBS News Making a plan for preventative care and screenings is a great way to put your health first. Whether it&#8217;s keeping up with recommended vaccines or scheduling screening tests to detect potential problems early, there are different guidelines to stay on top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11091,"href":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087\/revisions\/11091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvardstreet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}