Want to see a group of parents shudder? Whisper that your kid has “pinkeye.” That one little word evokes images of ocular goop cutting a swath through a pre-K class like a lion through a herd of gazelles. And as it turns out, how that [...]
It’s easy to assume the earlier women are screened for breast cancer, the better. And a recent US study, which found screening women with mammography from the age of 40 saved the most lives, generated headlines around the world...
Major health groups are calling for a national action plan to address overdiagnosis, signalling a mainstream recognition of the issue...
Five prominent Australian healthcare organisations are calling for a national plan to stop overdiagnosis and overtreatment. They issued a statement outlining how some medical conditions are being diagnosed too often, and that the practice is causing harm...
Prominent Australian health bodies are calling for a national plan to stop over diagnosis and overtreatment. A statement, endorsed by organisations including the College of General Practitioners, says the practice is causing harm. Breast cancer screening and tests for prostate cancer are among the culprits.
Receiving a diagnosis of a dreaded disease is surely one of the saddest things that can ever happen to us. But what if some of those diagnoses were unnecessary? Growing evidence suggests doctors are diagnosing many diseases far too frequently, and this problem of "over-diagnosis" is [...]
Today five influential Australian health-care organisations – representing professionals, the public and policy makers – have released a statement outlining that some medical conditions are being diagnosed too often, and calling for action to tackle over-diagnosis and the over-treatment it produces...
Australia’s peak independent cancer authority, the Cancer Council, has endorsed a statement calling for a plan to stop patients being harmed by the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of diseases. The statement developed by doctors and researchers was published on Thursday morning and described growing evidence and concern about [...]
'If you were to create a list of health problems that can be particularly tough on a woman’s body and soul, polycystic ovary syndrome would surely loom large...'
While some Australian experts argue that changing definitions have caused more women to be unnecessarily given the PCOS label, others caution against delaying diagnosis...