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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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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