Carl Heneghan and Jeffrey Aronson take a closer look at a recent lung cancer screening trial […]
Too much medicine
Margaret McCartney: Cancer screening review diminishes informed choice
We should resist the push for financial incentives, increased screening uptake, reorganisation, and restructuring, says Margaret McCartney […]
Lessons on patient and public engagement from the Choosing Wisely campaigns
Working flexibly with patients and the public is key to changing clinical practice and patient knowledge to reduce overuse, say Anna Kurdina, Karen Born, Amy Ma […]
Ian Hamilton: Prescription drugs are no cure for deprivation
The burden of poverty can muddy diagnoses of depression and lead to the overprescription of antidepressants, says Ian Hamilton […]
Richard Smith: Does antimicrobial resistance pose “as great a threat to humanity’s future” as climate change?
Both antimicrobial resistance and climate change are manmade disasters that we have failed to confront, says Richard Smith […]
Kieran Walsh: Too much medicine—practical tools that could help
Doctors are constantly being told that they overdiagnose and overtreat their patients. They are told that they overdiagnose and overtreat a range of conditions—but one simple example is the overdiagnosis […]
Martin Marshall: De-diagnosing disease
New diagnostic labels should be more cautiously applied and established diagnoses should be regularly reviewed, says Martin Marshall […]
Getting at the roots rather than pruning the branches of overdiagnosis
Healthcare is in a tailspin as the rush to offer technology and services turns otherwise healthy people into concerned patients by identifying disease that is not destined to cause them […]
Helen Macdonald: How we label life experiences can lead to overdiagnosis
Helen Macdonald wraps up some final thoughts from the last day of Preventing Overdiagnosis […]
Helen Macdonald: Big people, big data, and big problems
Helen Macdonald discusses the key points from the 2nd day of Preventing Overdiagnosis […]