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Tag: screening

9/10/2018

How overdiagnosis and other harms can undermine the benefits of screening: A new primer in our toolkit

1 1/29/2018

In the real world, harms of lung cancer screening prove greater than expected

9/26/2016

Pernicious PR Promotion of Overdiagnosis – my talk at Barcelona conference

4/8/2015

BBC takedown of exaggerated jogging study gives a second helping of bad advice

1 10/1/2014

My article kicks off 5th Annual Health Literacy Month Blog Series

7/9/2014

What women need to know about USNWR’s “16 Health Screenings All Women Need”

2 6/27/2014

The long list of warnings about community screening programs is getting longer

3 7/29/2013

Cautions on cancer screening, overdiagnosis and overtreatment

1/15/2013

The media are influential…on everyone else, say Alzheimer’s specialists

10/3/2012

9-part series on overdiagnosis

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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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