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Gary Schwitzer, University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Communication
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Paul Levy. President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, blogs about keeping up with the Joneses in the medical arms race. He...
Tags: urology

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Capping quite a week in criticism of health-medical-science journalism (see my two previous posts), Slate offers a column, Bullies Like Bullying: How...

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In the BMJ this week, Steve Woloshin, Lisa Schwartz and Ray Moynihan raise new questions about who's watching the watchdogs? Excerpts: Industry s...

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Cris Russell has a column under the headline above in the Columbia Journalism Review. Excerpts: A dirty little secret of journalism has always been ...
Tags: running

In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 2 weeks ago
I've been tracking news coverage of a Minnesota company's heart sock device for heart failure for four years. Four years ago, I questioned Star Tri...
Tags: hearing

In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 2 weeks ago
See complete Colbert clip on his NoFactZone site.Excerpts: This is a great breakthrough in the battle to find things to prescribe to people who don...
Tags: heart attack

In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 2 weeks ago
You can split hairs all you want about what the Associated Press actually reported about an American living in Germany who was treated with a bone mar...

In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 3 weeks ago
OK, turn it over to some journalists and we'll have statins coming out of the kitchen faucet tomorrow. On HealthNewsReview.org, we reviewed a story on...

In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 3 weeks ago
On the ABC site, Norton Hadler writes: Are you convinced this small effect is real, that it will reproduce if one were to repeat the JUPITER trial?I ...

In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 3 weeks ago
I awake to all kinds of breathless news coverage about breakthroughs and paradigm shifts regarding the statin study called Jupiter. But Merrill Goozne...



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