In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 13 weeks ago

Natasha Singer of the New York Times has an important story on cancer center advertising, including embedding actual radio, TV and print ads in the on...

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In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 13 weeks ago

Yesterday we commented on a hospital chaplain/blogger who critiqued a troublesome health news story. Today we bring you the comment of a reader (who h...

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In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 13 weeks ago

I love it when I see smart people blogging their critiques of health care news coverage. So I say Hallelujah in response to a hospital-chaplain-blo...

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In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 13 weeks ago

I've seen a lot of awful news coverage on breast cancer screening in the past month or so, but the award (so far) for the worst, most useless, misinfo...

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In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 13 weeks ago

The National Breast Cancer Coalition is offering an online webcast tomorrow to clear up confusion on the recent USPSTF breast cancer screening recomme...

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In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 14 weeks ago

Warm, touching, but inadequate story of a pro football player's daughter and her path to a heart transplant. The story claims that a heart pump saved ...

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In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 14 weeks ago

Amazing. Do they plan this editorializing in editorial meetings as a way to compete with/resemble Fox News? http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/2009/...

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In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 14 weeks ago

As British physician-writer Ben Goldacre put it: Tamiflu is pretty marginal as a treatment, and crap as prophylaxis: as we basically already knew. ...

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In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 15 weeks ago

Carl Elliott, MD, PhD of the University of Minnesota (Professor, Center for Bioethics; Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Me...

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In Schwitzer health news blog - Posted 16 weeks ago

I would ignore this except that it's in the Washington Post and despite the fact that they're closing bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, wh...

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