Posts Tagged ‘over-diagnosis’

Pre-diseases: forgetfulness, MCI and pre-dementia

Friday, September 14th, 2012

Over-diagnosis epidemic – David Le Couteur discusses recent changes in the definition of dementia and their ramifications: The pattern of over-diagnosis is the same for many diseases: we screen healthy people and those with minimal symptoms; we use sophisticated technologies that detect early or minor abnormalities that may not progress; and we treat people with Read more