Housecall for Health: Are Annual Checkups Necessary?

Doctors advise every patient to come in every year for a well visit or physical…but are these checkups really necessary?

FOX’s Colleen Cappon reports in today’s “Housecall for Health”:

New research suggests you may not really need a yearly checkup.  A Danish study finds that for generally healthy people, routine physical exams have little to no benefit.  

Researchers analyzed data from nearly 200,000 patients in Europe and the U.S. and saw no effect on hospital admission rates, patient worry, referrals to specialists or time off work, but doctors say making an appointment for a yearly vaccine or screening is essential.

Housecall for Health, I’m Colleen Cappon, FOX News Radio.