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 [...]
2017 Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference – Quebec City
Quebec City, Canada , CanadaFollowing successful conferences in Dartmouth in 2013, the University of Oxford in 2014 the NIH in 2015, and Barcelona 2016 we are pleased to announce the 2017 international Preventing Overdiagnosis conference will be held in Quebec City hosted by the Quebec Medical Association (QMA). Abstracts [...]
Preventing Overdiagnosis 2018 – Copenhagen
Copenhagen, DenmarkPreventing Overdiagnosis 2018 - Copenhagen Copenhagen will have the honour of hosting the 6th international conference on Preventing Overdiagnosis. Abstracts submissions now being taken. Earlybird registration now open. For more information, please check out the link to the right.
New Frontiers in Health Literacy Research Symposium 2018 – Sydney
Charles Perkins Centre Lecture Theatre John Hopkins Drive (off Missenden Rd), University of Sydney, NSWSydney Health Literacy Lab will be hosting the New Frontiers in Health Literacy Research Symposium in Sydney on Tuesday 4 December 2018. Bringing together some of the world’s leading experts in health literacy (including Prof Michael Paasche-Orlow, Boston University School of Medicine, Prof Richard Osborne, Centre for [...]