Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Priority maintenance

Rationale: why prioritise certain medical articles?
Medical articles that contain material on screening are a priority to keep as accurate and as up-to-date as possible. The reason being that people will look up this sort of information before they decide to see a doctor, and hence no doctor has had a chance to talk to and inform them about treatment.

Over-the-counter medications pose a similar problem in that these can be bought at a chemist/drugstore and used with no involvement of health staff.

A person inquiring about prescription-only medications or surgical procedures must (by default) see a medical practitioner, hence that doctor will discuss that with the patient.

Articles with population-based screening

 * Autism - needs rechecking as of February 2018
 * Breast cancer - screening section out of date (refs from 2011-12)
 * Cardiovascular disease - needs rechecking as of February 2018
 * Cervical screening
 * Coeliac disease - needs rechecking as of February 2018 updated March 2018. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:40, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Colorectal cancer - screening section out of date (refs from 2010-14)
 * Diabetes mellitus type 2 - needs rechecking as of February 2018
 * Hepatitis C - needs rechecking as of February 2018
 * Hypercholesterolemia
 * Hypertension
 * Lead poisoning - needs rechecking as of February 2018
 * Lung cancer - screening section out of date (refs from 2013-14)
 * Obesity - needs rechecking as of February 2018
 * Pap test screening section out of date (refs from 2003 (!))
 * Well then, it really shouldn't be a B class article. Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉


 * Pancreatic cancer - needs rechecking as of February 2018 refs predominantly from 2014. Google search as of March 2018 reveals no major updates. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:48, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Prostate cancer - has stalled, also has daughter article Prostate cancer screening.
 * Thyroid cancer
 * Vaccination schedule/Immunizations

Over-the-counter medications

 * aspirin - unchecked
 * Ibuprofen - unchecked
 * Started some cleanup but more is needed. There are a lot of old references (some from the 1980s yikes!). TylerDurden8823 (talk) 13:58, 3 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Paracetamol - unchecked
 * one ref from 2018, one ref from 2017 -Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉


 * Cough medicine
 * Antacids