Posts Tagged ‘thermography’
Thermography: Worse than useless
28Nov12
Earlier this spring, I described the Choosing Wisely campaign in the United States, an initiative designed to redirect resources away from medical treatments that are useless or harmful. In the spirit of the campaign, I suggested Five Things Pharmacists and Patients Should Question. My list included unvalidated IgG food intolerance blood tests like Hemocode, dubious […]
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Tags: breast cancer, health canada, medical quackery, pseudoscience, thermography, useless tests
Is the health care spending tide turning? Unnecessary medical investigations and overtreatment seems to have entered the public consciousness to an extent I can’t recall in the past. More and more, the merits of medical investigations such as mammograms and just this week, PSA tests are being being widely questioned. It’s about time. Previous attempts […]
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Tags: hemocode, osteoporosis, pharmacist professional services, quackery, thermography, yorktest
