7 News – The epidemic of back pain
Back pain has almost reached epidemic levels in this country with a quarter of us suffering through it and spending millions of dollars trying to manage it. Now, there are some bold new ideas.
The Conversation – Five warning signs of overdiagnosis
We’ve had it drummed into us over decades that early detection is key to treating diseases early, before they have a chance to turn into something really nasty. But we’ve since learnt the flip-side of this is overdiagnosis, where people are diagnosed with diseases that [...]
Medical Republic – Fight continues against looming threat of overdiagnosis
Australian experts have banded together to launch an organisation dedicated to tackling unnecessary and harmful diagnoses, as the threat from increasingly sophisticated diagnostic technology grows. The collaboration, backed by doctor and consumer health organisations, aims to better grasp the scope of overdiagnosis in society and [...]
WONCA Europe – “Overdiagnosis in health care and overmedicalisation of the society”
PREVENT OVERDIAGNOSIS IN HEALTH CARE AND OVERMEDICALISATION OF SOCIETY - STATEMENT ON AGENDA ITEM 5 (C): ADVANCING PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE WHO EUROPEAN REGION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. A statement from several major health organisations.
ABC News – The push to address overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment
Ros Childs interviews Doctor Ray Moynihan, Bond University, about the push to address overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment as a result of early detection of disease due to the advances in medical technology.
The Age – Overdiagnosis is harming patients and action is required, says chief medical officer
Australia’s chief medical officer has backed moves to protect patients and safeguard the sustainability of the health system against the growing problem of too much medicine. Overdiagnosis is exposing healthy people to tests and treatments that are at best useless, and at worst trigger aggressive procedures with [...]
3AW – Australia a world leader in Australia a world leader in medical misdiagnosis research, says Fellow
Medical misdiagnosis remains a very real issue and Australia is leading the way in finding a solution. Senior Research Fellow at Bond University Dr Raymond Moynihan told Neil Mitchell Australia is “leading the world” is finding a way to curb the problem...
SMH – Overdiagnosis is harming patients and action is required, says chief medical officer
Australia’s chief medical officer has backed moves to protect patients and safeguard the sustainability of the health system against the growing problem of too much medicine. Overdiagnosis is exposing healthy people to tests and treatments that are at best useless, and at worst trigger aggressive procedures with [...]
JAMA Network – Incremental Benefits and Harms of the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association High Blood Pressure Guideline
The recent recommendations from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) to lower the thresholds for defining hypertension and for treating higher-risk patients have been controversial...
NHS UK – Low back pain treatment ‘needs improvements’
Low back pain (affecting the back between the bottom of the ribs and the top of the legs) is a common condition. Over the years research has improved our understanding of how to treat it. We now know that a lot of advice given in [...]