How much preventive health screening should I be getting?
Screenings can find treatable conditions before they have caused too much damage – but ‘overscreening’ can cause harmI couldn’t help but roll my eyes when the tech entrepreneur and longevity influencer Bryan Johnson posted about his girlfriend’s “vaginal microbiome report” in April. (He said it was in the “top 1% of vaginas”.) While the vaginal microbiome is genuinely interesting, most clinicians don’t routinely recommend this test to patients.As medical technology has become more powerful – and more marketable – the…
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