Scientific evidence alone is not sufficient basis for health policy
Basing health policy solely on evidence is inherently contrary to the essence of policy development and even potentially dangerous, argue Keith Humphreys and Peter Piot.
View ArticleNon-small cell lung cancer
Andrew Hill describes his experience of multidisciplinary care after his diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer when he was 15 years old. Patricia Fisher and Dan Yeomanson, both oncologists, give...
View ArticleUnnecessary care: are doctors in denial and is profit driven healthcare to...
Unnecessary interventions are estimated to account for 10-30% of spending on healthcare in the US, costing $250bn-$800bn annually and posing potential harms to patients. As Jeanne Lenzer reports,...
View ArticleIs the USA’s problem ours too?
The UK is fortunate that it is insulated against some of the needless overtesting, overtreating, and overdiagnosing that doctors in the United States are rising up against. Yet since the Health and...
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