Many news stories on last week’s study on digital mammography in the New England Journal of Medicine were shallow and incomplete. Many ran with a single theme that digital mammograms are 15% to 28% more effective than traditional film mammograms in the detection of breast tumors in women younger than age 50, women with dense [...]
A funny, witty column on medical science news coverage appears in the British paper, The Guardian. The author writes about the three types of science stories: wacky, scare and breakthrough. Their central theme? There is no useful information in most science stories. Read the article to hear the columnist’s ideas on why this happens.
TIME magazine must be very happy with whatever deal it struck with Pfizer for advertising in the September 5, 2005 cover story, “How To Stop A Heart Attack.” But let me count the ways this story and the ads bother me: 1. Inside of the cover story article is a fold-out three-page ad spread for [...]
We look for more critical analysis of FDA expedited approval of a new drug like this.
Five-star story on small study that tries to counter large body of evidence on soy supplements for hot flashes.
Our reviewers, including a leading women’s health clinician-researcher, felt this piece would have been benefited from more data and context.
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