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Cholesterol Monitoring

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that a dispute has erupted in the medical community about how aggressive doctors should be about testing cholesterol levels. The American College of Physicians, which represents family doctors, today issued new guidelines for cholesterol screening that calls for less aggressive testing than the current federal government's recommendations.

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