If you’re looking for #womenshealth on Instagram, a new study shows you’d better be prepared for lots of adverts dressed up as health advice.
- NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
When celebrities go public with their prostate cancer diagnoses, they do more than raise awareness.
More women are learning about their breast density when they receive their mammogram results. But what happens next?
One big risk is overdiagnosis: the more you test, the more you’ll find. Much of this may be clinically irrelevant, meaning unnecessary follow-ups, costs and anxiety.
The new lung cancer screening program needs to be independently evaluated to keep it on track, and to minimise the harms.
87% of posts mentioned the benefits of the tests, while only 15% mentioned potential harms.
This is not the first time we’ve seen powerful celebrity stories about cancer have the potential to influence public health. Here’s how you can make sense of the latest news.
Women may be classed as high or low risk, and screened differently. But the path forward is not clear cut.
Corporate medicine is hijacking feminist narratives around empowerment and women’s rights to market technologies, tests and treatments that aren’t backed by evidence.
More and more healthy women and men are found to have thyroid nodules. What are they? And should you be worried about them?
Health professionals should carefully consider the terms they use to avoid needless anxiety and unnecessary surgeries.
We can’t expect young men to access reliable COVID-19 messages from people they don’t know, through media they don’t use.
Labelling very low-risk conditions as cancers can cause unnecessary anxiety and lead to overtreatment.
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