Ray Moynihan

Dr. Ray Moynihan is an Australia-based academic researcher, and an award-winning journalist and author with a global reputation. Mr. Moynihan is assistant professor at Bond University, Australia.

Drug Companies Shouldn’t Help Decide Who Is Sick

Did you know the definition of high blood pressure (hypertension) in the United States was recently greatly expanded? ...

Health April 22, 2019
The Problem of Overdiagnosis

Some medical conditions are being diagnosed too often and therefore could be dangerously over-treated, according to five influential Australian ...

Health August 31, 2017
Drug Companies Are Buying Doctors—for as Little as a $16 Meal

An important new study in the United States has found doctors who receive just one cheap meal from ...

Opinion June 23, 2016
Resisting Expanding Disease Empires: Why We Shouldn’t Label Healthy People as Sick

You might have heard the frightening news last year suggesting half of all Americans had some form of ...

Health April 20, 2016
How Diseases Get Defined and What That Means for You

Have you ever wondered how diseases get defined? How "high" does your blood pressure have to be before ...

Health January 25, 2016
Costly and Harmful: We Need to Tame the Tsunami of Too Much Medicine

ABC's "Four Corners" program on waste in health care didn't pull any punches. "Many common treatments are often ...

Health October 1, 2015
We’re Overdosing on Medicine—It’s Time to Embrace Life’s Uncertainty

The more we learn about the problem of too much medicine and what’s driving it, the harder it ...

Opinion August 4, 2015
Most People Want to Know Risk of Overdiagnosis but Aren’t Told

An Australian survey released last week has found a large majority of people report they've never been told by doctors ...

Health May 24, 2015