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Tags: Pregnancy

9/10/2018

Fish oil during pregnancy led to ‘stronger kids,’ but was the difference clinically meaningful?

8/14/2018

How solid is the evidence behind the FDA-cleared ‘contraceptive app?’ ABC News doesn’t say

6/12/2018

BuzzFeed warns readers ‘a lot more work to be done’ to find out if experimental blood test can predict preterm birth

8/4/2017

STAT puts $950 DNA-based fertility test under the microscope

7/5/2017

Preeclampsia and aspirin: HealthDay does solid job covering new study findings

7/25/2016

Fitbit and fertility: Not enough caution or context on 5-woman study

6/29/2016

Inducing at 39 weeks: Washington Post story mystifies more than clarifies

5/31/2016

With no apparent news hook, it’s unclear why Fox News is discussing embryo screening

4/14/2016

WaPo story generalizes findings of small study on mice to pregnant women

4/4/2016

‘Baby deadline test’ story on NBC News: heavy on anecdotes, light on evidence

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Media coverage of a recent study is generating unwarranted hype about supplemental screening for cancer for women with dense breasts. https://lowninstitute.org/news/blog/media-misleads-on-mri-screening-for-breast-cancer/

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mcjaklevicMary Chris Jaklevic@mcjaklevic·

Happy to see that my @HealthNewsRevu blog about progression-free survival confusion has been reposted by @kevinmd. https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2019/12/most-new-cancer-treatments-havent-been-proven-to-help-patients-live-longer-or-feel-better.html via @kevinmd

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jsross119Joseph Ross@jsross119·

We are all worse off for not having @garyschwitzer's excellent, daily health care reporting, but his story today should sound the alarms and be a warning to anyone who gets health care information from local TV health news (read: much of America) (1/2) https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2019/11/why-hire-a-full-time-health-reporter-when-you-can-buy-news-off-the-shelf/#.Xeank0LWjyA.twitter

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