The phrase “to over‐egg the pudding” is a terrific analogy for what is now increasingly common in health care: medical overuse. Cooks would know that if you skimp with the eggs a pudding won't hold together and if you use too many eggs the pudding [...]
Patients might not be getting the best advice about which treatments do or don’t work, according to our study published today. We found professional societies are more likely to call out other health professionals for providing low-value treatments rather than look in their own backyard...
Choosing Wisely recommendations are framed in ways that lessen potential impact on the members of the society making the recommendation. Only 20% of treatment recommendations refer to income-generating treatments, and these are less likely to target members compared to non-members. Although nearly half of Choosing [...]
This study explored the benefits and harms of being diagnosed with PCOS for women in the community. We found that some women benefited greatly from a diagnosis of PCOS. For example, the diagnosis gave them an explanation for bothersome symptoms and a greater understanding of [...]
Flo and Clue, two popular period-tracking apps, recently introduced health tools that evaluate a woman’s risk for the hormonal imbalance known as polycystic ovary syndrome. ... “You could be making a lot of people concerned they have a problem that they don’t know will have [...]
When the human genome was sequenced in the early 2000s, it promised a future of medicine tailored to your personal genetic makeup. Many millions of dollars have been spent researching genomic therapy, but it has saved a fraction of the lives of conventional – and [...]
A recent Lancet series and World Health Organization commission have highlighted the urgent need for all nations to increase attention on delivering appropriate, affordable care for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). One of the most critically under-prioritised NCDs in Nepal is low back pain. Globally, 60.1 million [...]
The Viewpoint by Dr Wallis and colleagues1 suggested that there is a limited role for randomized trials in establishing the effectiveness of procedural interventions. Instead the authors suggested that patients, physicians, and payers might need to take a “leap of faith” regarding robotic surgery and [...]
What do women want to know about for them to feel ok about the changes to the cervical screening program? From six focus groups that we ran across Sydney with women aged 25-74, we found three key concepts that were a) important for women to [...]
If you've rolled an ankle, you know what comes next: sickening, nauseating pain. And then a big bag of frozen peas. Ice, plus a compression sock, rest and sticking your leg on a stack of pillows, is the standard treatment for strains, sprains and bruises, [...]
