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Now what do I do? Suddenly women in their 40s must ponder whose mammography advice to follow

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This story had one major flaw – suggesting that this was about withholding needed care – a misguided suggestion that overshadowed the task force’s call for improved shared decision-making. ...
New study casts more doubt on drugs Vytorin, Zetia

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Didn’t make clear whether findings are clinically significant. Also no mention of trial dropout rates, costs, or frequency of harms.  

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New Drug for H1N1 Flu Offers Hope

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Good overall but with several significant flaws: no disclosure of conflict of interest in one key interviewee, reliance on a single sensational patient anecdote, and no information on harms....

Study: New device boosts heart failure survival

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Overall good job.  However, the story may give readers an exaggerated sense of the value of this device in several ways that we explain in detail in our review.

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Study: Kidney angioplasty brings risks, no benefit

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Overall, a good job on a story about another study that shows that newer isn't always better in health care....

Breaching a Barrier to Fight Brain Cancer

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This story, on a novel approach to infusing chemotherapy for a brain tumor, just goes to show what a careful, engaged reporter can accomplish when given sufficient time and space to write a story.

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Niacin shrinks artery plaque; Merck's Zetia does not and may carry risks, new study finds

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The story provides a reasonable amount of information on the study and places it in context of other studies and in context of other treatment options. 

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Do diet patch claims stick?

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Another well-done "Healthy Skeptic" column - this one about on-the-skin diet patches, their claims, and the lack of published evidence to back up those claims....

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