Category: Health care/research ethics

4 11/5/2018

When medicine & media sugarcoat the true impact of patient harms

1 11/2/2017

In need of scrutiny: Misleading stem cell claims by academic medical centers

2 3/11/2016

Wrigley’s self-serving oral health plan gets free pass from news media

2 2/18/2016

Public institutions in Maryland still ducking basic questions about chocolate milk and concussions study

6 1/6/2016

Can $2 billion a year cure Alzheimer’s?

7/22/2015

Wrong forces drive osteoporosis treatment – despite evidence of lack of benefit

6 5/14/2015

Criticism of NEJM’s defense of industry-physician relations

2 6/27/2014

The long list of warnings about community screening programs is getting longer

12/19/2013

PBS NewsHour debate on Glaxo drug marketing announcement was almost waste of time

1 10/3/2013

Medical ethics case study: Speculating on Public Figure’s Mental Health

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The tale of two “negative” studies. Or, how spin is applied to make research findings look more impressive. A must read. https://johnmandrola.substack.com/p/the-tale-of-two-negative-studies

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The @nytimes chose to interview one of the editors of the @AnnalsofIM (publisher of this paper) who "gushed with extraordinary glee: It’s huge! There are very few things that reduce your mortality by 30%."
Turns out coffee is not one of those few things despite all that glee. https://twitter.com/garyschwitzer/status/1533202075928215558

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