Posted by Gary Schwitzer in Health care journalism, Screening
Since I posted a note earlier this week about Larry Husten’s fine journalism on Cardiobrief.org regarding the SHAPE (Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication) cardiovascular screening guidelines, I’m now posting a link to his followup story. Excerpt:
“Earlier this week we reported that SHAPE was preparing to update its controversial guidelines. It now appears that the guidelines are only the public facade of a larger program designed to encourage the growth of, and take a larger share of, the business of cardiovascular screening. Although conflict-of-interest concerns have previously swirled around SHAPE, new evidence suggests that the non-profit organization has aligned itself with a commercial venture, and presumably stands to benefit from the success of these projects.”
If you’re interested (as I think you will and should be), please go the link above to read Larry’s full story.
Treatment for advanced ovarian tumors may lengthen survival, but questions still remain, despite the story’s emphasis on “promising” and “new hope.”
As with the HealthDay story on this research that we reviewed, readers of this story get a good dose of caveats and cautions along with the suggestions that electrical brain stimulation might someday “have implications” for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
The readers of this story and the other one we reviewed by Reuters are likely to understand that electrical brain stimulation could have some memory effects, but it’s a long way from becoming a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
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