Oxfam Stories on Vimeo: Unhealthy profits and unwanted hysterectomies: How unregulated private health care in India is risking women’s lives

http://www.globalhealthcheck.org/?p=1374

The available evidence suggests that epidural corticosteroid injections offer only short-term relief of leg pain and disability for patients with sciatica. The small size of the treatment effects, however, raises questions about the clinical utility of this procedure in the target population.

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleID=1390546

Women aged 50 to 74 years who get mammograms every other year instead of every year are at a lower risk of false-positive results and at a similar risk of advanced-stage disease.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/257803.php

Women who have a false-positive mammogram outcome - when breast cancer is confirmed and then later ruled out with more testing - can suffer from long-lasting stress and anxiety for nearly three years after the wrong diagnosis, a new study suggests.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/257883.php

Researchers from the UCLA Department of Urology have found that patient-centered end-of-life care — ensuring that a dying person's wishes are known and followed — results in happier, less depressed patients who are in less pain and survive longer. By eliminating aggressive measures that patients might not want, this type of care also helps to keep costs down for those with advanced cancers and other diseases that can't be effectively treated.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/first-do-no-harm-ucla-researchers-244298.aspx?link_page_rss=244298

Less is more in preoperative testing

http://afpjournal.blogspot.com/2013/03/less-is-more-in-preoperative-testing.html

Overdiagnosis: Examine the Assumptions, Anticipate New Bipolar Criteria

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/bipolar-disorder/content/article/10168/2132832?pageNumber=1

Incurable and Irreversible

http://blog.abimfoundation.org/incurable-and-irreversible/

Taiwan groups promote end to futile terminal care

http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=202363&ctNode=445

Extra diagnostic tests don't reassure: another reason to Choose Wisely

http://afpjournal.blogspot.com/2013/03/extra-diagnostic-tests-dont-reassure.html

For the Elderly, Medical Procedures to Avoid

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/for-the-elderly-lists-of-tests-to-avoid/?src=recg

Defining the new normal in aging

 http://www.news.ualberta.ca/article.aspx?id=B00025ACD6BD4597B07121F7F398CB3F

You can download the fulltext of the paper by clicking on Get PDF ( It is free) :

 Reexamining the boundaries of the ‘normal’ in ageing

 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00583.x/abstract;jsessionid=DF4E721B0ABB197582C4947FF77A6A5F.d04t03