November 17, 2023 Health Policy How a new ‘super screener’ is helping detect cancer in patients without a family doctor. Half measures are better than nothing I guess.
April 12, 2022 Prevention and Screening Large scale study planned to evaluate cancer-screening blood tests. Lost in this is what screening is trying to achieve and not simply diagnosing disease earlier.
March 25, 2021 Epidemiology Ontario Science Table’s report and review of the data on Covid-19 screening of LTC home staff states, “there is no available real-world evidence to support or refute the benefits of screen testing in preventing LTC home COVID-19 outbreaks”.
September 23, 2020 Health Policy Fever as a school screening parameter for potential COVID-19 infections in children is problematic for many reasons. This includes inaccurate devices, choice of location (oral, ear, etc), and that a majority of children with COVID-19 will not have a fever.
September 4, 2020 Health Policy We will find out over the next few months, as more data is collected and studied, what combination of approaches to reducing school Covid-19 outbreak risk achieves its goals.
August 19, 2020 Epidemiology The false sense of security from asymptomatic testing. Why testing before getaways or visiting family may not be as accurate as you believe.
October 21, 2015 Prevention and Screening US Mammogram guidelines gravitate towards towards the evidence
December 10, 2013 Cancer/Oncology Overdiagnosis of lung cancer through CT screening does lead to harm for those whose cancers do not require treatment
November 9, 2012 Cancer/Oncology The rationale of why testicular cancer screening using a pregnancy test is not recommended