WFTS health reporter Linda Hurtado shared her own personal health scare with viewers when she announced, on-air, that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. “Tonight I have some very personal news to share with you,” Hurtado said, her voice quivering. “I’ve lived my whole adult life in fear of getting breast cancer. I watched [...]

MSNBC dayside host and seasoned reporter Andrea Mitchell has just revealed live on MSNBC that she is now among the “one in eight women in the country” that is suffering from breast cancer. Mitchell returned to host her show after having Chris Matthews fill in for her yesterday and ended today’s program by sharing a personal note of “how (she) spent her summer.”

“Beauty is only skin deep? I think beauty is both skin and body deep!” says Elizabeth Hurley.

After writing yesterday’s piece about the British actress and her work with the Estée Lauder people and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, I find I have a few snippets of further insight to the beauteous Liz.

The Master’s is over, and in the event that you are just awaking from a six-month coma, you may need to catch up a bit on the Tiger Woods‘ saga. And apart from working blue on occasion, Woods’ play was a perfect redemptive story for sports writers and pop culture obsessives to fetishize over. But the big winner was Phil Mickelson, and in case you didn’t know it, the media really wanted to play-up the stark difference between faithful Phil (whose wife Amy suffers from breast cancer) and the caddish Tiger Woods.

We reported last week that a government panel issued controversial new breast cancer screening guidelines, and predicted that the very real concerns they present would be twisted to raise concerns about the House health care reform bill. Our prediction played out on Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, as GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn and Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz sparred about the new guidelines. Neither got it quite right, and George ran out of time.

The Federal Task Force on Clinical Preventive Services has issued new guidelines that drastically scale back the use of routine mammography and breast self-examination. Others in the medical community have condemned the change, but the Task Force’s recommendation carries extra weight, as its guidelines are the basis for minimum benefits standards in the recently-passed House health care bill.

‘Save the Boobs’ is a campaign from Rethink Breast Cancer, which made the rounds on the Internet last week thanks to the clever work of Agency Spy who brought it to light. The idea behind the sexy ad is to entice men to get involved (?) breast exams. Well this morning CNN asked if the ad “was too racy” — which of course enabled them to show the sexy ad.