New England Journal of Medicine pieces on prostate cancer screening
This week’s edition of the NEJM includes four perspective pieces on the new US Preventive Services Task Force’s prostate cancer screening recommendations. One, on “what the USPSTF left out,” states:...
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An unusual TV news sweeps period piece: profile of an evidence-based doc
“You’ve probably never heard of Dr. Tim Wilt. He doesn’t have a TV show. No advice column in the newspaper.” That’s how my friend (and former graduate student) Jeff Baillon of KMSP-TV began his 5 1/2...
View ArticleDr. Peter Ubel asks: Why No Uproar Over Ovarian Cancer Screening Guidelines?
Peter Ubel, M.D. is a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University, and the author of Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together. I don’t know how...
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Two noteworthy breast cancer stories: “The Feel-Good War” and guidelines...
The New York Times Sunday magazine piece, “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer,” is by Peggy Orenstein who begins: “I used to believe that a mammogram saved my life. I even wrote that in the pages of...
View ArticleBreast cancer and stroke screening stories that deserve careful attention
Two screening test stories – both of which discuss the work of the US Preventive Services Task Force – that deserve much more analysis than I can afford to give right now. This is a casualty of our...
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Mr. Balls, Senhor Testiculo, and a man named Cox
In all the years I’ve written about promotions for various screening tests, I’ve seen some oddities. A porn star and the “Boob Bus Nurse Brigade” promoting mammography A fun-filled giant walk-through...
View ArticleA couple of docs react strongly to NYT “Well” blog post on vitamin D screening
The US Preventive Services Task Force this week released new draft guidelines on screening for Vitamin D deficiency. The draft “concludes that current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of...
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Watch World Cup, get free skin CA screening – more hospital marketing
It’s a new twist on “having skin in the game.” During today’s USA World Cup match, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City tweeted: Ok to cheer for the red, white and blue. But with these “free skin...
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What women need to know about USNWR’s “16 Health Screenings All Women Need”
When I see a headline such as “16 Health Screenings All Women Need,” I steel myself for what comes next. “All women need“? What came next in the US News & World Report column was a list of...
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Imbalanced NPR political story on new draft mammography guidelines
A physician-follower of this site wrote to me: “Please consider reviewing this very lopsided and scientifically uninformed piece on NPR on breast cancer screening.” The piece was headlined, “Congress...
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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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Watch World Cup, get free skin CA screening – more hospital marketing
It’s a new twist on “having skin in the game.” During today’s USA World Cup match, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City tweeted: Ok to cheer for the red, white and blue. But with these “free skin...
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What women need to know about USNWR’s “16 Health Screenings All Women Need”
When I see a headline such as “16 Health Screenings All Women Need,” I steel myself for what comes next. “All women need“? What came next in the US News & World Report column was a list of...
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Imbalanced NPR political story on new draft mammography guidelines
A physician-follower of this site wrote to me: “Please consider reviewing this very lopsided and scientifically uninformed piece on NPR on breast cancer screening.” The piece was headlined, “Congress...
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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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