Category: Business of health

4/9/2020

Self-promoting MDs hawk unproven COVID-19 pandemic treatments

5/17/2019

Tone deaf promotion of very early research on smartphone app for kids’ ear fluid

10/23/2018

When it comes to surprise medical bills, journalists largely focus on casualties and not the war

9/18/2018

What did journalists overlook about the Apple Watch ‘heart monitor’ feature?

8/14/2018

The art of the non-news release: News you can’t use

6/25/2018

‘Home run’ gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Investor-oriented coverage pitches promise but …

4/10/2018

A cancer doctor speaks out: How premature hype about experimental drugs fails patients

3/23/2018

‘$7.9 trillion’ savings from earlier Alzheimer’s diagnosis: Is there a hidden agenda behind the numbers?

2/5/2018

Wearable defibrillator is said to save lives, but patients and doctors question at what cost

1 1/9/2018

‘Clinically proven’ ear plugs for migraines make news headlines, with little evidence they work

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Monday at #ADA2021, an infectious disease epidemiologist, a journalist, and a researcher shared perspectives on communication of risk in the era of COVID-19: http://ow.ly/ROfR30rMeE7 @AstleyCM @garyschwitzer @berthahidalgo @ADA_DiabetesPro

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Shoutouts to @susan_bewley @drkevinknopf @MichaelBaum11 in this call for more than fawning coverage from press releases for these kinds of stories.

Also, linked history inside goes back 5 years just on Grail apparently trying to become Holy Grail. https://twitter.com/garyschwitzer/status/1408849696416841731

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Here we go again w/more news about “Blood test finds 50 types of cancer.” And here we see again what’s missing from most such news stories. https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2021/06/blood-test-finds-50-types-of-cancer-weve-been-down-this-path-before/

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