Too Much Medicine: what’s the problem and how do we fix it”
Along with medicine’s celebrated ability to heal the sick, there is growing global unease about its capacity to harm the healthy. Around the world there is increasing evidence that when it comes to healthcare, we are too often getting too much of a good thing. [...]
Sydney Ideas – Is too much testing and treatment making us sick?
Lecture Theatre 4002 (Messel) Sydney Nanoscience Hub, Physics Rd, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaPanel discussion with audience Q&A on the topic of Wiser Healthcare Co-presented with the Sydney School of Public Health We all want to be able to get good healthcare when we need it. But what would it mean to provide and consume healthcare wisely? This [...]
2016 international Preventing Overdiagnosis conference
Following successful conferences in Dartmouth in 2013, the University of Oxford in 2014 and the NIH in 2015, we are pleased to announce the 2016 international Preventing Overdiagnosis conference will be held in Barcelona. Registration is now open, with a special early bird price of [...]