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 ...

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 ...

Last month was breast cancer awareness month. It was difficult to go anywhere without seeing pink ribbons and hearing that 40,000 women die each year from breast cancer. Last week the U.S. Task Force ...

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 ...

One in seven older veterans with hypertension is discharged with increased blood pressure medications, despite half of those having well-controlled blood pressure prior to their hospital stay, ...

A new report indicates elderly veterans at more than 100 Veterans Health Administration facilities and 21 Veteran Integrated Service Networks are being overtreated with insulin and/or sulfonylureas.

Older people may too often be diagnosed with an underactive thyroid and prescribed thyroid hormones, which can cause new troubles and expenses without improving their lives, researchers say. A recent ...

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 ...

Breast cancer screening for women over 50 saves lives, an independent panel in Britain has concluded, confirming findings in U.S. and other studies. But that screening comes with a cost: The review ...

BALTIMORE, MD (CBS) – New research shows that most people diagnosed with depression do not actually meet the criteria for the illness. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of ...

Those aren’t words you want to hear from your doctor, especially when he’s called to report the results of a biopsy. I scrambled to find a quiet corner and my head began to throb as I listened. Ductal ...

Two thirds of women receiving medication for osteoporosis potentially did not need treatment, according to a retrospective cohort study published online January 4 in JAMA Internal Medicine. In fact, ...