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News 05-03-2013 02:27 AM

Weekend reading: Overweight doctors; ADHD diagnosis wars; States cut treatment for me
 
Recently, a survey of three decades of screening published in November in The New England Journal of Medicine found that mammography's impact is decidedly mixed: it does reduce, by a small percentage, the number of women who are told they have late-stage cancer, but it is far more likely to result in overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment, including surgery, weeks of radiation and potentially toxic drugs.

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