When does health information change behavior? When a consumer knows more about the effectiveness, safety or cost of a medical test or treatment, do they act differently the next time…
The Choosing Wisely campaign begins its third phase today, with three new lists of “things physicians and patients should question.”
The new lists were assembled by AMDA, the American College of Surgeons, and the ACS’s Commission…
Experts from all corners of medicine have converged on Dartmouth College in New Hampshire this week in an effort to come to grips with “overdiagnosis” — a costly and risky…
If you’ve been following us on Twitter this week, you will have picked up on a trend: Many of the Choosing Wisely topics address things that women commonly experience in the health…
Why do we do what we do? Because people like Zvi Frankel have to work so hard, just to find safe, effective medical treatments. His account of his quest —…
Antibiotics matter. But the way that patients, doctors and the meat industry use them, they are at risk of being rendered useless.
That’s why Consumer Reports has launched an in-depth, publicly…
Consumer Reports, the world’s largest independent product-testing organization, is proud to be leading the consumer communication efforts of the Choosing Wisely campaign. That campaign kicked off in April, 2012, and…
Two years after the launch of the groundbreaking Choosing Wisely campaign, its influence has formally gone international.
The Canadian Medical Association and nine of the country’s physician specialty societies have launched Choosing…
Our national poll of more than 1,000 Americans shows many skeptical about generics
Ginger Skinner, Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
Americans take a lot of medicine. More than 4 in 10…
Serious illness, especially in an older person, demands tough choices from patients, their families and their health-care providers. What’s more, it’s often difficult for people to find solid information and…
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