In the most recent issue of The NIH Record, which is the biweekly newsletter for employees of the National Institutes of Health, there’s an article about Dr. John Ioannidis, director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center, and someone whose work I’ve recommended to many audiences. Ioannidis recently spoke at a seminar sponsored by the NIH [...]
The Los Angeles Times wrote about an essay in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, stating: As if Dr. Paul Offit hasn’t made enough enemies already by insisting (correctly) that parents put their kids’ health at risk when they refuse to get them vaccinated, now the infectious disease expert appears to be picking a [...]
Marya Zilberberg posted, “Fast science: No time for uncertainty.” Excerpt: “…my anxiety about how we do clinical science overall is not new; this blog is overrun with it. However, the new branch of that anxiety relates to something I have termed “fast science.” Like fast food it fills us up, but the calories are at [...]
The following is a guest post written by Harold DeMonaco, one of our expert editors on HealthNewsReview.org, and Director of the Innovation Support Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital. ———————————————————————————————————————— The March 15 2012 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine includes the results of a nine year study for stroke prevention that received very [...]
That’s what one author writes in a series of papers published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes this month addressing issues involving the integrity of research data. Yale’s Harlan Krumholz writes: “Patients facing a decision deserve information that is based on all of the evidence.” Further excerpt: Every day, patients and their caregivers are faced [...]
Science and business journalist David Freedman’s book, “Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us – And How to Know When Not To Trust Them,” hits on many health/medical/science journalism themes – although that is not the main focus of his book, which also addresses finance wizards, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, high-powered consultants and more. The book’s [...]
ABC News is in the midst of a major promotion of Dr. David Agus’ book, “The End of Illness.” In the course of their reporting, they sent Nightline host Bill Weir to see Agus, whom he referred to as “a rock star of science.” Weir had tests as part of his reporting and writes: As [...]
A journalist brought this to my attention. It’s a case of dueling messages on the websites of the two big Chicago newspapers. One is a news story. The other is nothing but an unvetted health care industry news release. On a Chicago Sun-Times website, a local medical center posts a news release touting its “new [...]
Sometimes I blog things that I see just to ensure that I have a place to keep them. This is one of those times. Because this is a keeper. The Carlat Psychiatry Blog re-posted a list from BMJ blogger Richard Lehman – Ten Commandments for excellent clinical practice. The New Therapeutics: Ten Commandments Thou shalt treat [...]
A paper published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute brings new focus to the questions already raised about prostate cancer screening. Headlines: Prostate Cancer Screening Shows No Benefit – New York Times “Updated findings from one of the largest studies of prostate cancer screening show that the commonly used P.S.A. blood test [...]
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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