Journalists in Myanmar, also known as Burma, were regarded for decades as among the most restricted in the world, subjected to routine state surveillance, phone taps, imprisonment and censorship so intense that independent papers could not publish on a daily basis.
Back in 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force another government-run panel of independent experts revised its breast-cancer screening recommendations by telling women to wait until age 50 before undergoing routine mammograms.