My favourite subject – screening.

There’s a column on Inside Health about it, as well as a feature on private companies who offer screening for aortic aneurysms.

The references I used are here

http://www.annals.org/content/152/8/505.full?aimhp
http://www.scielo.org.ar/pdf/rac/v76n2/en_v76n2a20.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK33513/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK33507/

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001923/carotid-endarterectomy-for-asymptomatic-carotid-stenosis

http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC006173
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa070972

There is also a feature in the Times today, but it’s behind a paywall, about the misinformation some healthcare charities give out, and the influence of the pharmaceutical industry – who have moved on from ‘educating’ doctors.