Health screening


Are breast cancer screening benefits being oversold?

Many leading cancer epidemiologists are now calling for women to be given more complete information about the probabilities, risks and benefits of screening, writes Simon Chapman.

The Brough draught of the Intervention, from 2006

The following leaked document reveals that Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough floated the idea of medical checks for children for signs of s-xual abuse over a year ago. And as the exchange of correspondence shows, his advisers dismissed it as a bad idea, writes Sophie Black.