News Round-Up
24 April 2024
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A new study followed 400,000 men for 15 years and found no benefit from screening for prostate cancer. The problem is over-medicalisation and over-diagnosis, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Prostate cancer screening is likely to do more harm than good, experts have warned, after a 15-year trial showed one in six flagged cases was wrong and the death rate was lower in those who weren't screened.
A dramatic rise in abdominal cancers among younger people, even those under 45, is sparking alarm among medical experts.
Doctors across the world are sounding the alarm over a surging epidemic of young people being diagnosed with cancers since the pandemic, with no obvious explanation for what lies behind it.
As King Charles undergoes surgery, many older men know how an enlarged prostate can greatly narrow the horizons of one's life, says Drew Clode. But an operation like a TURP can be life-changing.
The pressure on the NHS is reaching breaking point as the burden of disease continues to increase. But why are those born after the 1960s so much less healthy than the previous generation? Dr James Morris has an insight.
Health services in Estonia, Israel and Austria provide safer care than Britain and the U.S., a report has revealed – with the U.K. failing to make the top 20.
The In-house doctor breaks down the Byzantine complexity of our de facto private health system. Ironically, the greatest ally private medical providers have turns out to be the ‘useful idiot’ NHS zealots.
Denmark has ceased Covid vaccination for most under-50s, but the UK has not, meaning it is offering vaccines to 32m additional, low-risk people at a potential cost of £1bn. This is an utter waste of scarce public funds.
We're publishing an original essay on the Daily Sceptic today by Dr. Sinéad Murphy, an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at Newcastle University. She writes about how 'health' has become a largely meaningless word.
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