White children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during elementary school. That is the key ...

Older adults with diabetes are being overtreated for their condition, leading to harmful outcomes such as hypoglycemia, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Older adults with ...

It is hard to imagine that the second leading cause of cancer deaths in U.S. men is in the midst of a wait-and-see approach treatment controversy. However, whether to treat prostate cancer is often a ...

— Back pain stands out as the No. 1 overtreated condition, from repeated MRI scans that can't pinpoint the trouble to spine surgery on people who could have gotten better without it. About one in five ...

Older diabetes patients with low blood sugar levels are being overtreated, a study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine shows. The research team studied records from 78,792 Medicare ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new report indicates elderly veterans at more than 100 Veterans Health Administration facilities and 21 ...

How effective is your medicine? If you are like most of us, you have no idea. What's worse, neither does your doctor. Food and Drug Administration approval is a little misleading. Although the law ...

Eberly Fellow, Professor of Education and Demography, and Director of the Center for Educational Disparities Research, Penn State White children are especially likely ...

WASHINGTON — More medical care won’t necessarily make you healthier — it may make you sicker. It’s an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe. Anywhere from one-fifth to nearly ...

We couldn’t investigate whether white children are more likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for ADHD during middle or high school because our study’s data collection ended at the end of ...

More medical care won’t necessarily make you healthier – it may make you sicker. It’s an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe. Anywhere from one-fifth to nearly one-third of the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE—Too much medical treatment is making many Americans sicker. This is the first story in an Associated Press six-part series that examines the phenomenon of overtreatment. Next: Back pain.