Overdiagnosed: making people sick in the pursuit of health

Our enthusiasm for diagnosis

Genesis: people become patients with high blood pressure

We change the rules: how numbers get changed to give you diabetes, high cholesterol, and osteoporosis

We are able to see more: how scans give you gallstones, damaged knee cartilage, bulging discs, abdominal aortic aneurysms, and blood clots

We look harder for prostate cancer: how screening made it clear that overdiagnosis exists in cancer

We look harder for other cancers

We look harder for breast cancer

We stumble onto incidentalomas that might be cancer

We look harder for everything else: how screening gives you (and your baby) another set of problems

We confuse DNA with disease: how genetic testing will give you almost anything

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Pursuing health with less diagnosis.