We make choices every day of our lives. Some are minor, while others, such as those relating to our health, could have significant long-term implications. In this country health screening is not mandatory; each type of screening is a choice. …
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), part of Public Health England, is recognised worldwide as a best practice model for screening policy and implementation. We look to emerging science to inform our recommendations and while these recommendations (both for …
Medicine is there to help you and having screening and treatment is a good thing, right? Well, there’s a growing body of scientific concern that some testing is ‘over-diagnosing’ patients – that is, finding medical problems that may never cause …
