Flip over the calender. October to November. Breast cancer awareness month morphs into Movember – the global publicity campaign subtitled “Changing the Face of Men’s Health.” The prominent publicity stunt is to have men grow facial hair to support – well, to support what exactly? The Movember website points to these “partners and programs we [...]
I don’t know it it’s Sandy fatigue or election angst, but it’s surprising to me that more than 90 minutes have passed since an embargo lifted on this paper and few news organizations have reported on it – “Rescreening of Persons With a Negative Colonoscopy Result.” Here’s the paper’s conclusion: “Compared with the currently recommended [...]
Last week, the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s annual conference was held in Boston, and several papers were presented on proton beam therapy, and several medical centers sent out news releases about their involvement in the work. MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Loma Linda University Medical Center in California were two that we [...]
Dr. Len Lichtenfeld of the American Cancer Society writes on his blog, “During Breast Cancer Awareness Month We Must Not Only Celebrate Our Success But Also Understand Our Limitations.” Excerpts: “I fear that at times we have oversold our magic. I fear that despite all the progress and all the understanding about the disease, we [...]
Kudos to the Los Angeles Times for its story, “California doctors must soon tell women if they have dense breasts.“ Excerpts: Doctors in California will soon have to tell a patient if a mammogram reveals she has dense breasts. They will have to explain that breast density is associated with a higher risk of breast [...]
When I saw some of the news coverage of the breast-cancer-genetics study published in Nature this week, I wanted to hear the perspective of a smart young woman who had breast cancer. I didn’t have to look far. Mandy Stahre, PhD, is one of our story reviewers. She started helping us while she was still [...]
As I wrote late yesterday, CNN’s Sanjay Gupta announced via Twitter: BREAKING cure for #cancer close says md anderson. plan to “drastically reduce” cases & deaths n 5yrs! im reporting excl details all day @cnn Some of the reporting is captured on the CNN website. BREAKING news…breakthrough…cure close…exclusive…”Moon Shots Program”…”Giant leap for mankind”. We realize [...]
I’m supposed to be on vacation this week, but I can’t ignore the new wave of “cancer cure” talk in major news organizations just in the past two days. Gina Kolata’s front-page New York Times story, which included the quote, “”this is the road map for how we might cure breast cancer in the future,” [...]
The following is a guest post from Harold DeMonaco, MS, one of our expert editors on HealthNewsReview.org – and the one who, besides me, has analyzed more news stories in the past 6 years than anyone else on this project. ——————————————————————– Journalists’ reporting on the information presented at the annual meeting of the American Society [...]
This is a familiar story now being re-told. Excitement over an experimental drug is conveyed with unnecessarily sensational language that doesn’t help anyone. That’s what happened in recent days with some – not all – news about the experimental drug T-DM1 coming out of the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago. It would [...]
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.
This story focuses on a family that may have a rare genetic mutation that increases their risk of heart disease. Unfortunately, the “rare” part wasn’t mentioned until 1,600 words into this 2,100 word story.
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