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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

— 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Answers to the treatment debate for actinic keratosis, a precancerous growth on the skin. It’s not every day you hear cancer doctors cautioning each other to “back off.” But it happened at the 2008 ...

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 ...

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 ...