Category: FDA

9/24/2020

How COVID-19 drug/vaccine decisions might be based on little evidence

5/7/2019

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

1 3/9/2018

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

2 2/28/2018

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

4 2/15/2018

Advocates push for access to secret clinical data, while FDA drags its feet

2/5/2018

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

1 1/22/2018

Court records show how a medical device ‘seeding trial’ disguised marketing as science

1 1/9/2018

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

12/19/2017

A veteran journalist explains why it’s so tough to inform the public about medical devices — and what can be done about it

9/19/2017

Why ‘approved’ medical devices may not be safe: A new addition to our toolkit

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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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