Tagged: Screening

Screening for lung cancer in NZ is highly unlikely to be cost-effective: New NZ study - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Sep 03, 2018 •

• CT,
• Lung cancer,
• screening

Dr Richard Jaine, Dr Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Prof Nick Wilson, Prof Tony Blakely There is reasonably strong evidence screening for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans is effective at reducing lung cancer mortality. However, new research suggests it is highly unlikely to be cost-effective in NZ. We have just published the first NZ study to examine the cost-effectiveness of … Read More

Why mental health treatment is not an easy solution to violence - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 21, 2018 •

• anxiety,
• bipolar disorder,
• Depression,
• Florida,
• gun violence,
• Mental health,
• mental illness,
• Psychiatry,
• Psychology,
• Schizophrenia,
• screening,
• stigma,
• United States

Sarah L. Desmarais, North Carolina State University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In the wake of mass shootings and other tragedies, a frequent refrain is: Why don’t we get those dangerous people off the streets? And, just as frequently, people suggest that mental health treatment is the answer. Read More

Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Apr 18, 2017 •

• cancer,
• cost effectiveness,
• H. pylori,
• Maori,
• Pacific,
• QALY,
• Quality of life,
• screening,
• stomach cancer

Dr Andrea Teng, Dr Melissa McLeod, Professor Tony Blakely, Professor Nick Wilson  We have just published a modelling study on stomach cancer prevention in the international journal BMC Infectious Diseases (1). This blog briefly examines how a possible population screening programme, that tests and treats for infection by the bacteria Helicobacter pylori in the stomach, may be a cost-effective way to … Read More

Diabetes screening test important for New Zealand - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jan 18, 2017 •

• Diabetes,
• glucose,
• hba1c,
• prediabetes,
• public health,
• screening

New research calls into question a test used to identify diabetes risk. But we shouldn’t throw out the baby with bathwater, warn Prof Jim Mann and Dr Paul Dury. An Oxford University study and accompanying editorial, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), have raised  questions regarding the most  appropriate approach to prevent or delay  the onset of … Read More

We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1) - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Jun 23, 2014 •

• Breast cancer,
• mammography,
• screening

Editor note: This week Dr Caroline Shaw and Associate Professor Diana Sarfati consider the pros and cons of breast cancer screening, in light of the growing controversy (mostly in the northern hemisphere) about the possibility that the benefits of breast … Continue reading → … Read More

Another Blow to Men’s Health - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Apr 06, 2011 •

• Medical Practice,
• Ministry of Health,
• Prostate,
• Prostate Cancer,
• research,
• Sciblogs,
• Screening

The decision of the health select committee that there will be no National Prostate cancer screening can only be described as short-sighted. Once again, the opportunity to create a world class preventative health program is slipping through our fingers. Conventional thinking, like that exhibited by Associate Professor Brian Cox of the Dunedin School of Medicine, dictates [...] Related posts: … Read More