Overtreatment

Every cancer diagnosis comes with a range of reactions, including the natural inclination to act as quickly as possible to choose and begin treatment. However, a new study has revealed ...

During my daughter’s challenging first year of school, we discovered how much effort it took her to sit ...

A mistaken belief that antibiotics are beneficial for a broad array of conditions leads to their overuse, researchers ...

Kids with public insurance are slightly more likely to receive medical care that they don’t need than those ...

When she was in her early 20s, Nicole Veum says, she made a lot of mistakes. “I was ...

Being one of the youngest in a kindergarten class dramatically increases the odds that a child will be ...

Doctors know a lot about when to start medications to treat disease. But sometimes our focus on starting ...

ABC's "Four Corners" program on waste in health care didn't pull any punches. "Many common treatments are often ...

At least 45 tests and procedures routinely performed on patients across a range of fields are often unnecessary ...