Tag: screening tests

2/9/2017

Tainted at the source: Misleading PR claims that flow downstream to health news consumers

12 2/20/2015

CBS promotes “essential/critical” screening tests but never mentions over-diagnosis

9/22/2014

Duluth newspaper tackles commercial screening test questions

3/11/2014

“Simple” blood test to predict if you’ll be alive in 5 years? Please….

1 1/8/2014

“Our screening sacred cows”

5/22/2013

Doc complains, gets “misleading” bus ads promoting screening banned

5/14/2013

News story shines light on hospitals promoting questionable screenings

5/8/2013

If you cover health care news – 5 tests you must take now

6 10/11/2012

PrivateHealthScreening: What to Think About When You’re Thinking About Screening Tests

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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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