COVID-19 slashed health-care use by more than one-third across the globe. But the news isn’t all bad
From early in the pandemic health authorities have been warning Australians not to neglect their regular health care, amid a worrying decline in screening for breast, bowel and cervical canc... Read more
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
We hear increasingly about the importance of tackling overtreatment, but less often about how overtreatment plays out in the lives of patients and their families. In the article below, Brook... Read more
As covered in Croakey’s TOO MUCH of a Good Thing series, overtreatment and overdiagnosis are problems which undermine the goals of health care by causing harm and diverting resources from ad... 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
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
Did you know the definition of high blood pressure (hypertension) in the United States was recently greatly expanded? Overnight, tens of millions of people were reclassified, leaving one in... Read more
Over the past few decades, our understanding of cancer has changed. We now know some cancers don’t grow or grow so slowly that they’ll never cause medical problems. But the way we label dise... 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
With specialist skulduggery again in the spotlight this week, and the release of new Choosing Wisely recommendations, Dr Steven Faux steps us through the delicate dance of medical decision-m... Read more
