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How to rein in the widening disease definitions that label more healthy people as sick

  • Written by Ray Moynihan, Senior Research Fellow, Bond University
imageMedical panels are constantly lowering thresholds across many diseases, which results in more and more healthy people being diagnosed as sick.José Martín/Unsplash, CC BY

In the early 1990s a small meeting of experts, part-funded by drug companies, decided on a new definition of the bone condition osteoporosis. Historically, the label...

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