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Biden’s Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Timeline Is Entirely Possible, Doctors Say, Despite GOP’s Cover-Up Concerns
20 May 2025 19:45 GMT
… he covered up his health issues during his presidency— … his diagnosis timeline plausible, doctors say.
Former US president … means not over-testing.”
Biden’s publicly released medical reports while … inconceivable” Biden’s prostate health wasn’t being monitored …
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MAHA’s Goal Is Not Health
19 May 2025 12:49 GMT
… America’s health, Kennedy and the band of contrarian doctors and wellness … company that hires doctors to write letters of medical necessity so consumers … :
“‘Functional medicine’ is the worst of both worlds: the over-testing and overtreatment …
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Why More People Are Testing Their Blood Without A Doctor
21 Apr 2025 22:41 GMT
… for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM) supports at-home … outcomes.
One risk is over-testing. Like daily weigh-ins, … is interpretation. Without a doctor’s guidance, users may … biomarker data with their health care providers, fostering collaborative …
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Concerns grow over accuracy and safety of direct-to-consumer health tests
05 Dec 2024 17:29 GMT
… diagnostic technology and digital health have increased the … for decisions about their health.
Clinical tests marketed for … write. Results may trigger over-testing, distress associated with abnormal … which can carry significant health risks such as fertility …
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Researcher raises concerns over easy-to-access consumer health tests
05 Dec 2024 02:20 GMT
… ’s Australian Centre for Health Engagement Evidence & … published today in leading health and medical journal, The BMJ, … don’t require a doctor’s consultation.
Dr Shih … and physical health concerns.
“Results may trigger over-testing, distress associated …
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AI Medical Diagnosis: Faster, Not Necessarily Better
06 Nov 2024 15:58 GMT
… study suggests that when doctors team up with Artificial … with inappropriate under- and over-testing and treatment, so giving … of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
The researchers in … Measuring AI against the Health Care We Have NEJM …
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Prostate Cancer: Over-Testing and Over-Treatment
24 Oct 2024 06:55 GMT
The excessive medical response to the Covid pandemic made one thing abundantly clear: Medical consumers really ought to do their own research into the health issues that impact them. Furthermore, it is no longer enough simply to seek out a “second opinion” …
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Elle Macpherson’s breast cancer: How celebrities influence public health
06 Sep 2024 01:42 GMT
… potential to influence the public health narrative. Sometimes these celebrity stories … cancer may have inadvertently fuelled overtesting among women not at high … treatments that Macpherson said her doctor offered: mastectomy surgery, radiation, chemotherapy …
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Opinion: I’m a hypochondriac. Here’s how the health care system needs to deal with people like me
17 Jun 2024 13:34 GMT
… and costly paths: misdiagnosis or over-testing. Failing to diagnose hypochondria for … empathy and training health care providers (especially emergency doctors) to recognize and … also help is instituting a medical billing code for hypochondria. Without …
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Doctors fear Medicare reforms could ‘reproduce failures’ of UK health system
12 Apr 2024 19:18 GMT
… suggested there be Medicare subsidies for professionals other than doctors to refer … solution or protection for the health system.
“There is a disproportionate … of the generalist ... Over-prescribing, over-testing, over-imaging and over-diagnosis …