Category: Diagnostic tests

7/28/2020

What you need to know about the Alzheimer’s test news

7/11/2018

Screening for atrial fibrillation with a wearable patch: Seek and ye shall find … and then what?

6/21/2018

Understanding medical tests: A new addition to our toolkit addressing sensitivity, specificity, and other core concepts

3/23/2018

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

1 3/14/2018

Wearable technology to screen for atrial fibrillation: Does it raise more questions than it answers?

1/31/2018

NY Times hails discovery of new genetic heart disease risk factor, but what about researchers’ industry ties?

1 12/20/2017

New blood pressure guidelines: supporters get coverage, critics don’t. Why?

11/24/2017

Is Alzheimer’s ‘coming for you’? NY Times uses anecdote and an old blood test to warn it might be

2 11/3/2017

Scanning for suicide with fMRI: the limitations of pixels and language

1 10/11/2017

More evidence that women should be wary of ‘ovarian reserve testing’ events

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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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