Preventing overdiagnosis: how to stop harming the healthy

Evidence is mounting that medicine is harming healthy people through ever earlier detection and ever wider definition of disease. With the announcement of an international conference to improve understanding of the problem of overdiagnosis, Ray Moynihan, Jenny Doust, and David Henry examine its causes and explore solutions

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