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Overdiagnosis is now coming to serious attention in research and healthcare communities around the world
ABC Health Report: Should we be worried about for-profit radiology?
Featuring Dr Sean Docking
14 June 2025
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A national audit of radiology practices has revealed that many private practices are owned by large for-profit corporations and that four corporations own more than half of all MRI providing clinics.
There are concerns growing around corporate interest and the future of affordable, high-quality care in Australia.
ABC Health Report: Scanxiety - Could scans in cancer remission do more harm than good?
Featuring Prof Katy Bell
31 May 2025
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People who are in remission from cancer have regular scans and tests as part of surveillance.
But is surveillance overdone and does it make a difference to outcomes?
Shirtloads of Science Podcast: Health Misinformation on Social Media & Overdiagnosis
With Dr Brooke Nickel
19th May 2025
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Brooke dives into the murky world of health misinformation on social media, exposing how overdiagnosis and unverified health claims are thriving in this mostly unregulated space. The influence of online personalities, the power of personal anecdotes, and the urgent need for evidence-based guidance in digital health conversations is discussed.
ABC The World Today: The ‘unhealthy’ obsession with morning routine videos
Featuring Dr Brooke Nickel
28th March 2025
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The 'unhealthy' obsession with morning routine videos has sparked concern from health professionals.
Featured in this episode:
Dr Andrew Hughes, marketing expert ANU
Dr Brooke Nickel, University of Sydney
Dr Toby Garder, GP
ABC Health Report: Influencers spreading misinformation online
Featuring Dr Brooke Nickel
1 March 2025
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Since Belle Gibson was exposed in 2015 for the misinformation she spread on social media, platforms like Instagram have only grown, and gained further influence.
A new study has looked into posts full of misleading health information.
ABC Life Matters: Apple cider vinegar to wellness conspiracies - how can we combat health misinformation?
Featuring Dr Brooke Nickel
17 February 2025
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Netflix's new show Apple Cider Vinegar has reignited interest in wellness scammer Belle Gibson.
A decade on, this podcase will explore where we are with health misinformation online, and if anything that can be done to better regulate health claims made on social media.
Guests:
Bella Johnston, cancer survivor
Dr Brooke Nickel, Senior research fellow with Sydney University's School of Public Health
Dr Anna Halafoff, Deakin University Associate Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Spirituality and Wellbeing Research Network
First, Do No Harm: The Perils of Too Much Medicine and How We Can Tackle It
Wiser Healthcare Public Event, 11 October 2021
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Wiser Healthcare presents this powerful livestreamed discussion with globally respected doctors on the perils of too much medicine.
Wiser Healthcare’s Dr Ray Moynihan, from Bond University, moderated conversations with Professors Rachelle Buchbinder and Ian Harris, speaking on their explosive new book “Hippocrasy: how doctors are betraying their oath” and with Dr Ranjana Srivastava – author, oncologist and well-known Guardian columnist. Jan Donovan from the Consumers’ Health Forum of Australia then joined the group for a panel discussion and live question and answer session with the audience.
MODERATOR
Dr Ray Moynihan, Wiser Healthcare (Bond University)
IN CONVERSATION WITH
Prof Rachelle Buchbinder – rheumatologist and researcher (Monash Uni)
Prof Ian Harris – orthopaedic surgeon and researcher (UNSW)
Dr Ranjana Srivastava – oncologist, author and Guardian columnist
Jan Donovan – Consumers’ Health Forum of Australia, Board member
Learning from the pandemic: Can COVID-19 help us build a better healthcare system?
Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference Webinar, 17 November 2020
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The Asia-Pacific, and final, PODC webinar for 2020 was hosted by PODC partner Wiser Healthcare. This webinar focused on system impacts of COVID-19 and potential future implications for the healthcare system, addressing these questions:
How has healthcare service utilisation changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what has this revealed about effective and ineffective care?
Have these changes made things better or worse for patients, publics, healthcare workers, and healthcare systems?
Can COVID-19 disruption help healthcare build back better: with less low value care, more needed care, and minimal under- and overdiagnosis?
The event was chaired by senior Wiser Healthcare investigator Prof Paul Glasziou, who welcomed two speakers followed by a moderated Q&A panel discussion. Note the content had an Australian-lens but global data is presented, and inferences for global systems can be made.
SPEAKERS
Prof Anne Duggan, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare
A/Prof Ray Moynihan, Bond University
PANELLISTS
Kim Sutherland, Agency for Clinical Innovation NSW
Dr Megan Keaney, Australian Department of Health
Leah Hardiman, Health Consumer
Prof Jenny Doust, GP/University of Queensland
A/Prof Katy Bell, University of Sydney
RELEVANT LINKS
Systematic Review pre-print referenced in A/Prof Moynihan’s presentation – Pandemic impacts on healthcare utilisation: a systematic review
Systematic Review companion piece in The Conversation – COVID-19 slashed health-care use by more than one-third across the globe. But the news isn’t all bad
Australian National Cervical Screening – Panel Discussion
The University of Sydney, March 2019
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Evidence review for the renewal of the National Cervical Screening Program.
Click here to download the panel powerpoint slides.
For further information, or if you have any questions, please contact Dr Rachael Dodd
Treatment overload: Lifting the burden of too much healthcare
Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability, November 2019
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Interview with PCHSS’ Professor Paul Glasziou about low-value healthcare and ways to reduce the burden on our health system.
Prof Stephen Walter – Prostate Cancer Screening
The University of Sydney, August 2018
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Prof Stephen Walter takes us through methods for estimating the benefits and harms of prostate cancer screening.
From STEP to Wiser Healthcare seminar
The University of Sydney, November 2016
Jamie E’s back pain story
painHEALTH, October 2016
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Watch Jamie share his experience with back pain and hear how he found a way through and back to a fully active, engaged and meaningful life.
Back pain – separating fact from fiction
Pain-Ed, September 2015
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Prof Peter O’Sullivan discusses some of the myths about back pain which are widely held and negatively impact on the perception and treatment of back pain.
The Recommended Dose with Ray Moynihan
Cochrane Australia
Hosted by acclaimed journalist and health researcher Dr Ray Moynihan, The Recommended Dose tackles the big questions in health and explores the insights, evidence and ideas of extraordinary researchers, thinkers, writers and health professionals from around the globe. Produced by Cochrane Australia and co-published with the BMJ.
Is the health sector key to a low-carbon world?
Co presented with the Planetary Health Platform and Wiser Healthcare
The University of Sydney, May 2018
In this Sydney Ideas talk, Dr David Pencheon and the panel discussed how the Australian healthcare system is one of the leading contributors to climate change, how big data-sets can be used for quantifying supply-chain impacts of healthcare, and explore how the health and care sectors can work together to drive large-scale transformational change by addressing environmental, social and economic sustainability in a holistic manner.
Precision medicine: can it live up to the hype?
A Sydney Ideas event, co-presented by Wiser Healthcare, the Australian Epidemiological Association & the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.
The University of Sydney, October 2019
The promise of precision medicine is that it could offer better health outcomes by targeting patients’ genetic and biochemical make-up to pinpoint, predict, prevent and treat diseases. Can it deliver on this?
Hear world-renowned thinkers explore some of the key issues around precision medicine in this Sydney Ideas Talk. They analyse the realities of disease prediction, economics, ethics, clinical applications and the balance between the personal and the public benefit.
Featuring:
– Professor Sandro Galea, Boston University
– Professor Sarah Wordsworth, University of Oxford
– Professor Christopher Semsarian, University of Sydney
– Associate Professor Ainsley Newson, University of Sydney
– (Chair) Professor Robyn Ward, University of Sydney
Is Too Much Testing and Treatment Making Us Sick?
The University of Sydney, May 2016
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 panel discussion on Sydney Ideas Talk with Dr Iona Heath considers a radical idea: that sometimes wiser healthcare means less healthcare. Or at least, less healthcare for people who don’t need it, so we can give more healthcare to people who do.
