Breast cancer screening programs can cause more harm than good, according to a Danish professor who suggests women should not get screening mammograms at all. Medical researcher Professor Peter ...

The Cochrane Collaboration, a highly respected international medical research organisation that conducts systematic reviews and guides clinical practice, has been rocked by a scandal. Professor Peter ...

Women should avoid breast cancer screening because it will lower their risk of getting a diagnosis of the disease, claims a leading critic of the NHS programme. Danish scientist Professor Peter ...

One in three breast cancer patients identified in public screening programs may be treated unnecessarily, a new study says. Karsten Jorgensen and Peter Gotzsche of the Nordic Cochrane Centre in ...

Breast cancer screening programs can cause more harm than good, according to a Danish professor who suggests women should not get screening mammograms at all. Medical researcher Professor Peter ...

What could be more sensible than having a mammogram? If a tiny tumour is growing in your breast, you want to find it as soon as possible and treat it before it has a chance to spread and become ...

A leading scientist has claimed that antidepressant drugs are responsible for over half a million deaths of people aged over 65 every year. Peter Gotzsche, a Danish medical researcher, made the claims ...

Debates over the benefits vis-a-vis the harm that long-term use of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs can cause have raged on for a long time. Now an expert warns against the ill-effects of ...