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Categories: diabetes

4/20/2018

Announcement advocating increased screenings for diabetes ignores harms of overdiagnosis

3 11/22/2016

Device for type 2 diabetes: Release prematurely touts benefits from 60-person study

11/10/2016

Weight Watchers for type 2 diabetes: PR release left out researchers’ many financial ties to the corporation

9/2/2016

Metformin ‘could slow development of heart disease’ in type 1 diabetes? Release vastly overstates what small study can tell us.

5/23/2016

PR release on oral insulin pill opened door to questions about benefits, evidence

2 3/25/2016

Exaggeration found in PR release claim that anyone can “reverse” their Type 2 diabetes

3/2/2016

Exemplary explanation of study comparing diabetic macular edema treatments

11/19/2015

Generally strong description of diabetic retinopathy drug trial — but more transparency please

5/1/2015

Does sleep apnea treatment really “lower diabetes risk”? This news release oversells the evidence

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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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