[EBH]

Their findings were twofold: the health checks they studied did not reduce morbidity – the risk of illness – and they also had no effect on the risk of death

So you have them now saying that early detection and prevention are a failure?

[wfu_deacons]

There was an article, I think it was in the New England Journal of Medicine, that concluded the economic costs of almost all screenings outweighed the costs of treating the subsequent disease. The costs of the screening and false positives was greater than the treatment of the disease. The economic benefit for screening was a benefit to the individual in which the disease was detected but an economic loss for the society as a whole. One exception was the early detection of diabetes.