General Health Checks Are Harmful (opens in new tab)

General Health Checks Are Harmful by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute General health checks, called annual physicals in the United States, are sold to the public under false pretenses with claims that aren’t true. This also applies to targeted health checks, and mammography screening is a good example. Women have been told for 40 years in invitations to screening that by detecting breast cancers early, screening saves lives and leads to less invasive surgery. The truth is that breast...