Our work was featured on two prominent radio programs. The CBC “White Coat Black Art” program interviewed me for the last 7 minutes of a half hour theme show on healthy skepticism. The program audio can be heard here. And Minnesota Public Radio news director Mike Edgerly interviewed me for an hour on the MPR [...]
All over the country in May, hospitals are offering “Free Throat Cancer Screening.” A Google search turned up dozens of results for that specific term or the related “oral, head and neck cancer screening.” Here’s one example, promoting “Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, May 8-14.” This promotion uses ominous warnings: Can you live [...]
The April edition of Health Affairs is a theme issue, “Still Crossing the Quality Chasm.” It includes an article, “Informing and Involving Patients To Improve The Quality of Medical Decisions.” (subscription required for full text access) The authors conclude: “We argue that among the most important reforms needed to improve medical care are those that [...]
Larry Husten, on his Cardiobrief blog, reports: Drug-eluting stents (DESs) cost Medicare an additional $1.57 billion per year, according to a study published online in the Archives of Internal Medicine.…In an editor’s note, Rita Redberg wrote that “it is time to clearly define what the value of this extraordinary investment has been in terms of [...]
In the Chicago Tribune, reporter Trine Tsouderos reports, “FDA warns doctor: Stop touting camera as disease screening tool.” Excerpt: “On Dr. Joseph Mercola’s popular website, women are warned against getting mammograms to screen for breast cancer. Instead, the Chicago-area physician touts thermograms — digital images of skin surface temperatures — as an early detection tool [...]
Yesterday I saw journalists refer to the Wakefield autism/vaccine story as one that won’t go away. In the Twin Cities – but with a following far beyond this metropolitan area – the case of the suicide of a young man named Dan Markingson while in a trial of Seroquel at the University of Minnesota is [...]
On the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Paul Raeburn offers a a thoughtful analysis of the New York Times’ decision to publish a Sunday magazine piece, “The Crash and Burn of an Autism Guru.” His conclusion: “Here’s why not to do it: I believe that this story will prompt more parents to refuse to vaccinate their [...]
From Kaiser Health News, Harris Meyer reports, “Under Health Law, Colonoscopies Are Free–But It Doesn’t Always Work That Way .” It’s another quirk in the Affordable Care Act. (A bigger one, which continues to evade much public scrutiny, is how coverage is based on recommendations of the US Preventive Services Task Force – all EXCEPT [...]
All of us who have worked on HealthNewsReview.org for the past 6 years (5 live, 1 startup-prep-beta year) are grateful for the very kind, touching tributes that we received this past week. I’m especially grateful for the kind words from veteran science journalist Paul Raeburn on the terrific Knight Science Journalism Tracker. Although, as I [...]
On Maggie Mahar’s Health Beat Blog, see Naomi Freundlich’s piece, “New Health Indicators Site is a ‘Treasure Trove’ of Valuable Data.” On the Dose of Digital blog, see Jonathan Richman’s excellent analysis, “Lies, Damn Lies, and Pharma Social Media Statistics.” The FDA has announced a webinar for next Thursday (April 28) on its “Bad Ads [...]
It’s difficult to do an overview of melanoma drug research in a relatively brief story. But this story did a solid job.
Better than a competing piece by Reuters but still a little short on some details about this asthma drug study.
An adequate summary of this asthma drug trial’s design doesn’t make up for the overly optimistic tone about the drug’s future. A New York Times story was better.
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