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Category: Drug industry

5/7/2019

What you need to know about claims of health care ‘firsts’

2 5/23/2018

Consumer drug ads: The harms that come with pitching lifestyle over information

1 4/19/2018

Between news release hype and peer-reviewed publication, patients wait in limbo

3/28/2018

When ‘fact-checked’ health news doesn’t tell the whole story

1 3/13/2018

Did a pricey cholesterol-lowering drug really reduce deaths, as headlines claim?

1 3/9/2018

Lowering the bar on Alzheimer’s drugs: STAT op-ed takes industry-friendly line, without disclosing author’s pharma ties

3/7/2018

Pharma backing of advocacy groups: a call for transparency

2 2/28/2018

Drug kills flu in a day, news headlines claim. Here’s why that’s bad for public health

7 11/27/2017

MedPage Today’s ‘dinner table’ stories: Do readers really know what they’re being served?

11/22/2017

Not so fast: News headlines claiming two therapies were proven ‘equally effective’ for treating opioid use disorder

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FINALLY..... a commonsense analysis of yet more HYPE in the media about the next great hope for eliminating breast cancer. Thanks @mcjaklevic and @HealthNewsRevu. https://twitter.com/garyschwitzer/status/1192417365843206145

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Here we go again: another “simple blood test" for early detection of breast cancer. News reports shout “CANCER BREAKTHROUGH” & other hype for preliminary, very limited findings. https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2019/11/theranos-redux-not-really-but-claim-of-a-simple-test-for-breast-cancer-warrants-scrutiny/

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TV reporter buys medical marketer’s pitch for live mammogram. Ends up w/ mastectomy. The reporting on this episode has been abysmal. HT to @DrAttai @MichelleTregear https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2019/11/breast-center-marketing-pitch-via-reporters-live-streamed-mammogram-was-a-bad-idea/

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