Most people are familiar with the concept of undergoing general health checks. This might mean that your doctor talks to you about your medical history and lifestyle including diet, physical... Read more
In the article below, Dr Ray Moynihan explores some of the reasons why tackling the complex problem of too much medicine remains a big priority in the COVID era. This article is published as... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Australia’s situation is changing daily. In the past few days, there has been the first confirmed of transmission within Australia, which involves a health care work... Read more
A groundbreaking new study is examining how the media globally report on the benefits and harms of tests for healthy people. Dr Mary O’Keeffe, from the School of Public Health at the Univers... Read more
One of the four areas of focus for development of the new National Preventive Health Strategy is “current and emerging opportunities in cancer and chronic disease population screening”, and... Read more
Today, we are launching a new series that investigates how to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment in Australia and globally. It is being published as a collaboration between Wiser Healthc... Read more
Australia’s cancer screening programs have successfully reduced the burden of cancer on our community but it is important that we continue to question their role and evaluate their performan... Read more
Yesterday the health section of the Report on Government Services 2019 (‘the Report’) was released by the Productivity Commission. The Report is an annual document which ambitiously seeks to... Read more
Just before the last election the Government announced that it had awarded Telstra a $220 million five year contract to run national cancer registries. Concerns were raised at the time abou... Read more
A question which arose very early in the course of population mammographic screening for breast cancer is how to respond to the 20% of cases in which women with screen-detected cancer turn o... Read more
