Too Much Medicine: “My Brief Trip to Cancerland” by Jennifer Weiner
Read Jennifer Weiner's opinion piece, "My Brief Trip to Cancerland", discussing her experiences after a routine mammogram and biopsy.
Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz: Overcoming overuse: the way forward is not standing still
In a BMJ Essay, Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin respond to Lisa Rosenbaum’s New England Journal of Medicine article which suggests that "we don’t know how to eliminate wasteful care…
Jeanne Lenzer: Health care journalists should disclose their sources’ COI
Medical journals require authors to disclose conflicts of interest, but there is no similar policy for transparency in the popular media. Read as Jeanne Lenzer argues that health care journalists,…
Gordon Guyatt: Public health journals’ requirements for authors to disclose funding and COI
Read this study in BMC Public Health by Gordon Guyatt and colleagues, who argue that journals and publishers should consider revising their editorial policies to ensure complete and transparent reporting…
Peter Gøtzsche – Why you should usually avoid cancer screening
Watch this video presentation by Peter Gøtzsche, from the conference "What Is so Special About Cancer? Perspectives from Clinical Research, Philosophy and Social Sciences".
Victor Montori’s greetings
Unfortunately, Victor Montori had to cancel his participation to Too Much Medicine Symposium. Victor’s son is starting his academic life and University’s move-in activities occur at the same time with…
Too Much Medicine: controversy over breast cancer screening program in UK
Find out why a group of 15 health experts have written to the Times about the NHS breast cancer screening program, saying women should not be subjected to "fear-mongering".
Lisa Schwartz and Steve Woloshin cited on LitHub essay: “Why I’m giving up on preventative care”
Read this opinion piece about aging and preventative care, which cites work from Too Much Medicine's Steve Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz.
Gary Schwitzer: Patient harm from misleading media
HealthNewsReview.org celebrates its 12th anniversary today, April 17, 2018. Look forward to a new series, "Patient harm from misleading media", which will look at the very real harm that can be…
Paul Glasziou: Incremental Benefits and Harms of New 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. Changing…