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2 11/27/2018

Is social media hurting science … and people?

7/11/2018

Screening for atrial fibrillation with a wearable patch: Seek and ye shall find … and then what?

1 6/14/2018

Headlines raise alarm over prescription drug depression risk. But who qualifies as depressed?

1 4/19/2018

Between news release hype and peer-reviewed publication, patients wait in limbo

4 3/8/2018

Prostate cancer screening: massive study gets minimal coverage. Why?

6 4/17/2017

Selling Adult ADHD: NPR coverage helps advance drug industry marketing campaign

1/19/2017

Is it asthma? Many diagnosed with condition receive unnecessary or incorrect treatment

8/31/2016

A new osteoporosis drug that’s “better” than an existing option? How this misleading message reached consumers and how it could have been avoided

1 6/10/2015

A flawed news release, and the resulting coverage, of a study on breastfeeding and leukemia

4 11/12/2014

A 15-year retrospective on a shared decision-making encounter, a lawsuit, and not winning

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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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