Categories: Screening

7/19/2015

Thoughtful and thorough coverage on prenatal tests’ ability to find cancer in mothers

7/19/2015

Prenatal testing finds mother’s cancer — but CBS lost an opportunity to explain research’s broader relevance

1 7/8/2015

Strong report questions effectiveness of breast cancer screening — but needed a discussion of study limitations

7/1/2015

Report on “immersive” colonoscopy features lots of flash, but few evidence-supported facts

6/28/2015

Waiting too long to challenge claims of “perfect accuracy” in a pancreatic cancer test

6/28/2015

Harms, limitations missing from news release-based coverage of pancreatic cancer test

5 6/26/2015

Enthusiasm for “100% accurate” pancreatic cancer test does not reflect limited evidence quality

5/28/2015

Not enough women getting bone scans for osteoporosis? Incomplete story fails to dig deeper than the news release

5/26/2015

Predicting Alzheimer’s: What two new studies add and how the Times covered them

2 5/21/2015

Post coverage of new lung cancer test misses on caveats, costs, and harms

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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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