Read this Q&A with Jeanne Lenzer on her new book, "The Danger Within Us: America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It".

Lisa Cosgrove's review of a new guideline for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) shows that there was not enough data to support the treatment recommendations and the guideline might pose a health…

Many routinely offered tests are not needed, driving up the cost of health care for everyone. Read more about the report from the Washington Health Alliance. 

Read about the new recommendations on treating patient with knee osteoarthritis by Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, chaired by Rachelle Buchbinder, and take a look at the…

Many people assume that the Food and Drug Administration requires rigorous testing of medical devices before they are approved, the same as the lengthy approval process it requires for new…

In the BMJ, Peter Gøtzsche argues that psychiatric drugs cause more harm than good and that the current paradigm for treating psychiatric disorders is unsustainable.  

A scoping review in BMJ Open provides insight into how and in what clinical fields overdiagnosis is studied and gives directions for further applied and methodological research.

In 1960s Japan, a bizarre outbreak of hairy green tongues failed to set off alarms around the world. Read as Jeanne Lenzer describes a mysterious outbreak in 1960's Japan and…

Robert Whitaker discusses the lack of evidence for long-term beneficial effects of psychotropic drugs.

Read about how screening in the "nation’s oldest patients is highly unlikely to detect lethal disease, hugely expensive and more likely to harm than help since any follow-up testing and…