Category: Medical devices

11/25/2019

Why hire a full-time health reporter when you can buy news off the shelf?

10/2/2018

Osteoporosis and vertebral compression fractures: Advocacy groups and medical device maker spin misleading message

10/1/2018

Problematic PR releases: Why you should dig deeper when you see the term “minimally invasive”

9/18/2018

What did journalists overlook about the Apple Watch ‘heart monitor’ feature?

1 7/24/2018

Essure’s demise isn’t an end to medical device safety problems

9 7/17/2018

Local news hype of robotic surgery doesn’t match many hysterectomy patients’ experiences

4/10/2018

Gee-whiz news coverage doesn’t ask whether mobile stroke units will help patients

1 3/12/2018

LifeVest study results: PR spin machine in full effect at American College of Cardiology meeting

2/5/2018

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

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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