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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

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