A controversial new study claims about one in every five cancers diagnosed in Australia would have been better left undiscovered. The study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia on Monday, argues more than half of melanomas, 22 per cent of breast cancers and 42 [...]
Prof Paul Glasziou speaks on Channel 7's Sunrise program about overdiagnosis in cancer following the release of his MJA paper estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
Professor Rachelle Buchbinder was made an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medical education in the fields of epidemiology and rheumatology, and to professional associations.
A recent article in The Age advised against wearing thongs. It stated that thongs lead to poor joint alignment that damages joints; and damaged joints require surgery. The reality is that wearing thongs is just fine, and most damaged joints do acceptably well without surgery...
Kristie's paper "Decision-Making Preferences and Deprescribing: Perspectives of Older Adults and Companions about their Medicines" was published in the Journal of Gerontology. It found that there are new ways to characterise older people who take multiple medicines and those who are open to "deprescribing".
Choosing Wisely is an international effort to give consumers and clinicians guidance on practices, tests and procedures which have little or no value and just should be done either not at all or only in certain circumstances. In theory the strength of Choosing Wisely is [...]
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...
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 [...]
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, [...]
