Too much screening.

The Newsmedia are full of Ads. to recommend that you be screened for multiple conditions, with the intent that screening improves your health status. Now, from the the Royal Society of Medicine. Professor Wald questions the promotion, often by insurance companies, for screening tests which have no real benefit and which may even be harmful. “There is, emerging in Britain (and also in the USA - CMGB), a culture in which judgements on medical screening practice are being made in the absence of evidence….The culture needs to change, so that screening is subject to professional scientific assessment.” [Journal of Medical Screening 2007 Volume 11 Number 0]