Overtreated: The problem with heart disease is it is often overtreated, leading to an over-reliance on medications. This is concerning because patients may not receive adequate prevention ...

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which means it's time to talk about everyone's favorite topic (kidding!), mammograms. Though it's an uncomfortable — literally — topic, mammograms are as ...

Getty Recently, there have been some concerns over the fact that older women who get routine mammograms are at risk of being overdiagnosed or overtreated. As Dr. Pero explains that as helpful as ...

Madabhushi offered prostate cancer as an example of a disease that may be overtreated; patients may suffer harm if they receive unnecessary radiation when their mortality risk is quite low.

But whether the disorder is overdiagnosed and overtreated—or whether it reflects a set of evolved traits that have become less adaptive in today’s world—is widely debated. For more on the ...

I knew his concern was primarily for me and that he was not prescribing tests to fatten his or a colleague's bank account, but I also felt fairly sure I was being overtreated. I could afford it, so I ...

This means that there are patients in this intermediate group who are overtreated," says Johan Hartman. The AI he has developed has accessed thousands of images representing grade 1 and 3 tumors. The ...

Comparison with the resultant TSH concentrations showed a high proportion of improper treatment, with 18% categorized as overtreated. We agree with the authors that this result is striking and ...

We tapped Dr. Roxanne Pero to break down some things you should understand about mammogram screenings Getty Mammogram It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which means it's time to talk about ...

About 900,000 people in the United States live in assisted living, and roughly 15% could transfer to nursing homes annually—but little is known about the risk factors associated with having to ...

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