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Friday gems – in case you missed them
We can’t do a Five Star Friday feature today because we didn’t have any five-star reviews to shine a light on. In fact, this week, after publishing 128 systematic criteria-driven news story reviews so...
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Birds, hares, and tortoises: What do they have to do with the recent news on...
The following guest post is by Richard Hoffman, MD, Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine/Iowa City VA Medical Center. Richard is a...
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Journalists need to scrutinize the USPSTF’s draft recommendations on statins...
The recent United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) draft recommendations on cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins generated some news coverage, but not much and not much of high...
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Missing in action: Did US journalists miss a huge opportunity to critically...
Last week a guideline recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, addressed depression screening in the adult...
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As radiologists push for “virtual” colonoscopy coverage, risk of misleading...
Claims from an ACR news release made their way into a Baltimore Sun story on virtual colonoscopy. Credit Barbara Haddock/TNS. The American College of Radiology (ACR), together with the Colon Cancer...
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Is PSA now “OK”? What the task force really said about the evidence on...
Reading the headlines on the US Preventive Services Task Force’s (USPSTF) update to its prostate cancer screening guidelines, you might come away with the idea that the task force has completely...
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3-D mammograms for all: political gimmickry that may harm more women than it...
At the end of New York State’s legislative session two weeks ago, a bill mandating insurers to pay for tomosynthesis, also known as 3-D mammography, passed the Senate, the last hurdle before reaching...
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In the real world, harms of lung cancer screening prove greater than expected
Many positive lung CT scans turn out to be false alarms. Getty Images. While hospitals and advocacy groups eagerly promote lung cancer screening to the public, some researchers are shining a spotlight...
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Erin Andrews’ misdirected cervical cancer screening promo overlooks harms of...
Good Morning America didn’t report that Erin Andrews’ “important message” was sponsored by a company that makes screening tests. You may have seen celebrity Erin Andrews’ crusade to promote cervical...
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A win for readers: coverage of new prostate cancer screening guidelines...
When the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued a statement recommending against prostate cancer screening in 2012, its guidance was met with often vituperative attacks from...
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